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A day away from the world in your hands, also known as your phone, is still the best ingredient for a perfect day of relaxation. Choosing yourself over living other’s lives through a screen, is an amazing remedy.
Recently, I spent the whole day with my phone off, doing what I wanted to do, without the distraction or opinions of others. And stop, before you say, “well what if I miss something?” Trust me, you won’t.
Everything & everybody will still be there. You might have a few, “hey where are you texts,” but that is easily resolved with a simple reply afterward. Nothing you find, once turning your phone back on, will make you regret giving yourself a day. A day for your ‘mental’ to rest and a day to think for yourself, without interruption.
The days of endless scrolling always leave me with a feeling of emptiness; a feeling that the day has been thrown away. So, as I gave myself freedom from the endless scrolling and turned away from distractions, I found myself doing something I haven’t been doing genuinely for a couple of months: LAUGHING.
Now mind you, I was watching a show I had found boring at first but was trying to give it a second chance (yes, one of those types). However, as I watched this show, this time free of distractions and even my family, who all were out at the moment, I…
