We live in times in which "the new language" by which we communicate goes hand in hand with a screen: social networks, YouTube, technological messaging platforms, etc. that is, always a screen in front of us.
To this we must add that leisure time also happens, by playing, alternating, watching or always enjoying what a screen gives us or transmits. So, how much time do we dedicate or invest in front of any type of device or new technology? How long do we look at a screen without looking for anything specifically? and in the end we have slipped our finger without obtaining any income or personal benefit.
That is the reality, we spend many hours looking at images, messages, videos, which then have no impact on anything that can improve us as people, or enrich our inner, family, social, work or professional world in some way. Or on the contrary, that the time we invest can also help or benefit someone else, since the human being is eminently social, and contact, like affection, will bring us great joy.
On the contrary, what we strengthen by continuing with this will be an empty, repetitive activity that consolidates as a habit that we do not need at all; and that prevents us from doing anything else like reading on paper, putting on our shoes and going for a walk, meeting someone and having a coffee to talk, fixing something inside the house, making a recipe or simply breathing consciously. I suggest that you think about the time you spend "looking at a screen", and establish clear limits of how much you have to be and how much you can't, it's already too much.
We cannot forget that the little ones at home will also do what they see adults doing, and this commits us to having a mature and healthy behavior. We are in time to improve customs that we are establishing as normal and that do not help us to feel full and satisfied with each one.
Louisine Daives.
Health psychologist CV-10293
Master in drug addiction
