No Phone
I have slowly come to the realisation that over the last few months, I like others, have become terribly addicted to using my mobile phone. Numerous studies have been completed proving that receiving a notification on your phone release dopamine in our bodies. How utterly astounding is this? I wont lie. I am a high user of my device. I enjoy, scrolling through Instagram - bombarding others with funny memes. Sending lengthy voice messages on Whatsapp describing my day to my bestie and completely utterly useless quizzes on Buzzfeed. Not mentioning my constant perusing of Grindr and Tinder. Enough said. In a earth shattering decision I turned my phone off for a day. Ground breaking eh. I needed to test myself and see how I coped without a mobile device to obsess over. I turned the device off on a Sunday evening and it was not powered back on until after 9am on the Tuesday of that week. That way I could get the full experience. Here was the result. 5:30am I begrudgin