digital wellbeing
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My New Normal, Hopefully
Dear Conscience, Today is day 4 of my strict phone rules. I’m getting a hang of it. It was a good day. I spent the whole day with my daughter. And while she was sleeping, I cleaned up the kitchen. That was the time when I otherwise probably would have been on my phone, and Continue reading
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Smartphone Is a Time Thief, so I Locked It Up.
Dear Conscience, It is mind-boggling to think and realize how much of this world’s focus, energy and potential is wasted on the smartphone. Not that people didn’t waste time before… But this is on another level. It steals time, and we know this, but we don’t realize how bad it really is. I was actively Continue reading
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My Phone Is My Enemy
Dear Conscience, It’s not a new realization that I waste my life on my phone. And I’ve tried weaning off several times, with short-lived success. It’s so much easier to slip back than to wean. This needs a permanent and focused commitment. I’m introducing two basic rules: #1) night time is between 9pm and 7am Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 