AN EPIPHANY WRITERS CHOICE

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Internet and Mobile Phone Addiction
Playing games on mobile phones and networking on social media is an important thing to very many people in the digital age. The phone enables us to do so many things that we cannot perform our daily duties without such devices. We so much depend on them. The features of games and internet had made me hold the cell phones with a high regard. Passing time, chatting with friends and family members is a great experience. Yes, it gives that feel you are part of a wider community.As always, there are a lot of stories to talk about and many games to play on cell phones.
My personal exposures began with playing games on the computer at a tender age. As I can recall, I did not derive much entertainment from the machine in the initial stages. I saw them as something mysterious but always receive encouragement from my parents to try something on them. After some time, I developed an interest in the games and the satisfaction that they accorded me. Then, I did not know that it was a strategy for my parents to keep me busy so as not to mess around with things in the house. When I look back, it seems like the strategy worked very well. This is because I spent most of my time on the computer after leaving school and my mother seemed to be comfortable with the situation.
Afterward, other gadgets known as Ipads and smartphones came to the scene. At this time, I was much older and more aware of the communication world.

Smartphones and Ipads had better features than what I was used to. The games were more entertaining, and the internet provided other platforms to chat with people through social networking sites. I would ‘stay’ on Facebook for hours chatting away with friends or playing games. Even in the middle of a walk on the road, I would slow down or stop to respond to a text on Facebook. I once trampled and fell on my left knee while replying to a Facebook post on the staircase of a local supermarket. Then all of a sudden -or so I thought- my parents started complaining that I was not paying much attention to anything. Specifically, my mother complained that I had become a zombie. She once complained that I took hours to respond to her requests for me to run errands within the house. For me, I saw it as an intrusion into my leisure time. With time, the house turned into ‘a war zone.’
The bad blood between and the parents and me continued for some time. Then one day, one of my close friends in the neighborhood got sick. I learned the news from my mother as she was a close friend to the mother of my sick friend. A few days later, my mother and I visited my friend in the hospital. Here, we learned that he was hospitalized as a result of back pains. The information we got from the mother and the medical staff shocked me. He had developed health problems on his back due to the use of gadgets while in the same posture for a long time, leading to a strain of the backbones! The doctor told us that he would undergo physiotherapy sessions alongside taking drugs.
Upon arrival in our residence, I spent some time in my room thinking of the medical situation of my friend. I became concerned when my mother warned me of other consequences of the heavy use of phones and the Internet. During the conversation, I learned of a Canadian teen, named Amanda Todd, who committed suicide as a result of cyberbullying. It dawned on me that excessive use of mobile phones in chatting and playing games would do you no good. Personally, I resolved to engage in more physical activities such as sports during my leisure time and also in community social work. I spend minimal time on Ipads and phones. A year later, I feel that my life is more fulfilled than ever.