Hello friends and community. Happy Almost weekend to you all 🥰.

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This question of how long can I stay without a phone 📱 is one that kept me thinking 💭. Can I ever go without my phone for 30 minutes? While am awake? I don’t think 💭 I can go without my phone except when am sleeping 😴

To be honest with this question my phone is like a mini office to me due to the nature of my job as a Realtor. The job I do for clients who needs to inspect apartments are mostly carried out online since the job also involves networking of persons you must connect with to have good flow of information.

Its very important to me to always be on my phone immediately I get up from bed 🛌 in the morning to check for new informations, pictures and videos, as this information will help me know how to start my day and those to contact for appointment bookings.

I have never stayed away from my phones to up to 30 minutes without touching the phone because some of the apps that brings me some immediate information are always turned on, like the WhatsApp, which I mostly use for messages and photos. I see my phone at this stage as my mini office with lots of vital informations

Although I have made it as a decision to stay off work during the weekends, being Saturday and Sunday to enable me enjoy my rest and attend to family, but that is just not working with clients or other colleagues who I network with, nor going to the office. This does not stop me from using my phone since I still have to make calls to family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 and friends 🥰💕after all long Saturday morning sleep and breakfast for family.

I feel this is a digital world 🌍 and era when many things should be made easier due to how our phones stands as a tool we can utilize not just for games, music 🎶 and calls, but the phone as one that can help solve many of our problems especially connecting with those we have important things to do with and the world 🌍at large. We should see our phones as a device that we can rely on to achieve many of our goals and objectives by utilizing it properly.

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Phones are supposed not to be seen as a device we carry about for fancy, watching TikTok, comedies , unnecessary chats but a tool that should mean so much to us, and one that con lead us to people and things that can change our lives. As many are always being distracted by their phones because of not knowing how potential phones are.

My phones are my mini office like I said because it has helped me to connect so much with people in my work area and around the internet with other crucial informations. In this present times, our phones should be seen as our best companion because it does so much for us with how it has been programmed for all purpose solutions. Not being with my phone could just be when am sleeping or resting during the weekend and does not want to touch them which might just be like an hour or two.

This is my response to the #hivelearners featured content for week 169, edition 02, tagged “WITHOUT A PHONE”.

Thanks for reading friends 🥰❤️

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