change the phone!

I lost my phone at the Dubai airport today. :)# Most of us are accustomed to our phones that we can single handedly use it to talk/text without even looking at it! This does bring to us a lot in question, our familiarity with our phones, also hampers our real world interaction, as most of us do so much with our phones, taking for granted that we know how it functions. Changing our phones, would make us spend so much more time with it, to compose a message, make a call, even turn it to silent mode. And what would seem like a loss of productivity actually makes us spend more time to interact with our real world, which surprisingly is not lost time, but time that we have once again found!

Something as small as changing our phones impacts our real world so much, that it actually gives us a different perspective on many things. Start by not using your phone for certain periods of time, and then switch your phone. Then give up the phone for some time, time will come calling! It has for me atleast :)

Now repeat this exercise with other things* that occupy our lives that we take for granted.

# something similar happened 5 years and 14 days back!

*things not people :)