{"id":255658,"date":"2024-07-02T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/how-to-spend-a-day-without-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:15:43","slug":"how-to-spend-a-day-without-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=255658","title":{"rendered":"Surviving A Day Without Your Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no denying that we can\u2019t live without our smartphones. It exists as our day-to-day assistant, juggling an incredibly diverse set of tasks, allowing us to talk, to shop, to watch, to play, and so much more. <\/p>\n

People often exaggerate that they can\u2019t live without our smartphones, and there actually is some truth to that. Some people like to be up-to-date with their friends and family, others need it to find directions to where they\u2019re going, and others just need the constant rush of dopamine from scrolling endlessly.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, it feels as though there\u2019s nothing much to do without your phone nowadays, though that couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth. There\u2019s a lot that actually could be done without your phone, and how to spend a fulfilling day without it.<\/p>\n

Breathe<\/h3>\n

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Take a moment to relax. So as long as you store your phone in a safe place, you need not worry about your phone getting lost. Take in your phone-less surroundings and the lack of a constant buzz of attention in the palm of your hand, because you\u2019re going to get used to it, and even start to like it.<\/p>\n

Talk To People<\/h3>\n

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Despite the ease of connecting with friends only one tap away, there is nothing that beats being physically present with them. Texts and chat messages don\u2019t live up to the thrill of hearing your friend talk about their interaction with their crush, or venting about a former friend. What\u2019s more, you\u2019ll be engaged by having no other distractions, holding onto every word they say and immersed deep into your conversation.<\/p>\n

Listen To Your Thoughts<\/h3>\n

Without your phone, you have no access to your music, and you\u2019ll be forced to listen to your thoughts. Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not as scary as you think. Even if BINI keeps saying that your life is not a race (\u201cbuhay ay \u2018di karera\u201d), maybe the silence might get you to start worrying less about your life without the distraction of their voices.<\/p>\n

Take A Walk<\/h3>\n

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There is a lot to see in the world, even if you\u2019re not guided by directions on a map. You\u2019ll be forced to look up, and you might even spot something new in the area, like a restaurant that\u2019s just opened, or a side entrance to some hidden cafe. Take a leap of faith and get to walking around your neighborhood, you\u2019ll never know what you may find.<\/p>\n

Live In The Moment<\/p>\n

This is what going phone-less for a day gets you. It\u2019s not about trying to listen to less music, or stopping your doom-scrolling on TikTok or YouTube, but actually getting to pay attention to your life and the worries and concerns that you might have been deliberately avoiding.<\/p>\n

Our phones are amazing, and they do so much to make our lives all that easier. But they\u2019re prone to distracting us, to trapping us into experiences that are easier to think about than the worries of our daily life. Maybe take a day without it, and start to think about what you\u2019ve been missing out and trying to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a lot of things that we can do with our phone, but there\u2019s also a lot that we can do without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":255659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-thetalk"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255660,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255658\/revisions\/255660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}