I Spent 120 Hours Without Phone & I Wasn’t Ready For What Happened: Why You Should Care

Renuka Gavrani
7 min readSep 30, 2022

You and I live in the same world. No, not this beautiful mother earth. But the other digital world where we have lost our mental capabilities and have adopted the desire to do more, be more, have more and achieve more while losing the grip on what really matters like your real love life, your relationship with yourself, and the connection between you and mother nature.

Now, I know you already all this but do you?

You and I know how we are becoming invisible in our lives and to the people around us yet we are more interested in knowing the updates of other’s life who we don’t even know. Why? And How?

Why are we not interested in our real life? And

How did we end up becoming so handicapped that going for a walk without a phone never crossed our minds?

And do you know what’s even more ironic?

The irony is that you know you are addicted to your phone yet you seem to have no control over yourself. How? Well, let’s discuss that first.

I spent 120 Hours Without a Phone and OMG! I was not ready to face what I observed and felt. Here is what my observation says:

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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