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1.7 KiB
39 lines
1.7 KiB
1 year ago
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title: "Smartphones are evil"
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date: 2022-12-20T07:52:03+02:00
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- dystopian
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I was on a subway ride today, going home after a long day at high school. I was
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minding my own business, mainly listening to [a song to get me *in the
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feels*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5Vkd4N03Q).
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I randomly noticed a mom sitting across with her daugther. She looked tired,
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depressed and miserable, clearly giving everything she had to raise her
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daughther. She was probably even working multiple jobs, the child's father
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probably not being present in their lives, judging by the fact that she was
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alone in a subway train late at night.
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Her daughther was about **4 years old** and she was **obsesively using her
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smartphone**. It is obvious that in the given circumstances, the only way her
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mom could cope with raising her daughter is occupying her attention with a
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smartphone. This is what the world has come to. Her daughter was barely
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responsive to her mother's questions and requests, to the point where she had
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to drag her to leave at the correct station, not moving her eyes from the
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screen for even a second.
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This scene made me feel horrible for what our society has become and maded me
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feel very sorry for the mom, as she was doing the best she could do to take
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care of her daugther in her overwhelming condition. Her 4 year old daughther
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looked like she was on drugs, which is a highly disturbing scene to witness.
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Among all of the questions that this scene raised in my head, one of them
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caught my deepest attention: *What will the daughter be like in 20 years time?*
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Would this excessive cellphone usage have any effect on her mental capacity in
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the long run, or are cellphones just a harmless means of etnertainment?
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