Today, there is no person who does not use a cell phone. From children to older generations, everyone has their own cell phone. Cell phone, is a part of our life, we save photos, talk with friends and use social networks on our cell phone devices. There are people who can spend hours talking with their friends on the phone or their wives can sit for hours and browse the social network. And sometimes, without noticing, we spend most of the time on our gadgets. Maybe for some people this is normal, but not for me. I caught myself in such a position that when I wasted my big time on the phone, I forgot about my responsibilities and family. I used to sit and watch new photos of my friends on Instagram leafing through a Facebook feed or switching to websites and shopping and reviewing new clothes for myself and for my family. I consoled myself with the fact that it’s better to go shopping and watch clothes. I watched all those online but it  happened so often that I spent more time on the phone and didn’t pay attention to my children. When I became a student and this habit of using cell phone led to a big problem in my life. First of all, I spent a small part of my time with my children and mostly tinkering in my phone. My children were left without attention and they were also loading their iPads. I noticed that I did not show them a good example in that way. Secondly, I forgot to do my homework and did my assignments in the last minutes and in this way my assignments were not as good as I could do it. I caught myself thinking that I was wasting my time with unnecessary things and ruining my life. Now every time I take my phone I tell myself that time is an expensive thing and I need to use it usefully.

                   The most personal technology has the power to change lives. Nowadays people can not imagine their life without technology. It does from morning to night they rely on electronic device. They are some advantages and disadvantages to using smartphones. Surely makes our life easier but there are some disadvantages to using it. In the first paragraph I am going to write about the advantages and disadvantages. Advantages is from included small charlls to big it makes people easier. We can connect with the world, for instance, my parents and relatives are back in my country but I feel like I do connect with them everyday because of social media and cellphone. I am a student and without technology I can not do my homework.I need laptop to do check for my assignments.In the opposite it has some cons even my mind distracting from social media and cellphone because we all the time  keep watching unnecessary things and makes to avoid real interaction with other people.

In 21st century if we ask anyone to name one thing can’t live without , their cellphone would probably top at list. Because of advanced technologies we are able to connect our near and dear even they live in different countries. Through smartphones there are many advantages like setting alarm, setting our weekly schedule , checking forecast and many more. These days we may forget to eat or do ur assignments but no one forget to take cellphone before leaving home. people gives more preference to digital world compare to human beings. But smartphones has a lot of disadvantages. Through my experience I loss my sleep hours , without enough sleep it ruins our daily life . Mostly I waste my time in social  media or entertainment every hour  I check my cellphones which leaves  many important work behind. There is always  distraction from technology every app notification pops up also  daily news which drags us to use phone anyhow. People spend more then 5-6 hours in cellphone each day . Due to spending extensive time in technology many young people loss their  vision and communication to world. 

 Technology has become a part of our everyday lives. We have grown reliant on the way our lives have become facilitated by technology. In addition we have become so entrapped to technology, that at times we lose track of time due to our in depth focus in technology. For example, the other day I was watching Netflix on my phone on the train. I look up from my phone and I passed my stop. It is at this moment as I come to realize how a device created by humans has the power to distract us from getting to our destinations. We have become so entrapped into our cell phones that sometimes we forget or just plain out avoid real life socialization with with friends or family. The purpose of cell phones was to make it easier to communicate with one another, but at the end of the day this device has changed our generation and the way we function. From little things as missing my train stop to bigger things as not knowing when to stop using ones cellphone and may grow apart from a significant other, or a baby being raised by the 21st century nanny (cellphones). To conclude I still watch Netflix on my phone and probably always will, but I like to always be aware of my surroundings on the train or overall just how I am especially in New York City and I try to avoid losing track of time while on my smartphone.

I remember when I was younger about the age of 10-13, I would of spend my days playing baseball, tags, hide and seek and so on, but that was partly because as a kid I grew up in the Dominican Republic where at the time, cell phones and TVs  were not the main source of entertainment, instead it was going outside hanging out with your friends and playing sports and games all day long but as I moved to the U.S and grew older I started noticing that here In New York, it was different, there was barely any physical activities to do outside in most part due to the weather but just as much cell phones and TVs were the cause too, it is almost as if people rather text than meet up in person, watch a movie on Netflix  and then text about it rather than going to the movies together. cell phones give us the advantage to connect to others who are far away, yet when we use them we are almost completely disconnected to what’s happening in front of our eyes, it’s almost like everyone it’s on their own private space, away from reality and caged inside an artificial connection to others through a phone.

Have you ever thought that you had a great sense of time, that you can guess the time of day simply by how it looks outside? I thought did! Recently my concept of time has been called into question. Here’s a little back story about my life. I Work in a small Private animal Practice in New York City with no windows, it was raining all day and I stayed in and worked through my day. Hours upon hours have passed, and not once have I stepped out or checked the clock, all I knew was once the last patient is gone, I can go. So, after a crazy day, I checked out my final patient, I gather my things and I’m just glad to be on my way home. I step out my hospital and BAM its darkness. Whoa I must have worked till 8 pm today …makes sense not uncommon at all and it felt as if I worked for that amount of time. As I wondering I shuffle through my bag for my cell phone. Only to see it was 5:50..It’s weird that one can feel so sure about their own concept of time depending on what you are doing. You can feel like you have worked for only a set amount of time and as people we largely use how it looks outside to reference time .My cellphone gave me a reality check and I should probably use a alarm clock from now on because I clearly cannot rely my own assumptions of time.

P.S Another way Time will get all warped for all of us , Its Fall Back! Daylight Savings Time is over and its time to turn the clocks back one hour on November 3rd

One of my mother’s friends, who was a kind quirky lady, had a collection of cool books and gave me one about meditation. What made it fun were these exercises that relaxed you without having to meditate in a quiet room, with your eyes closed sitting indie style! i read a few pages and chose an exercise that seemed like a challenge, one about using the noises around you to come together and make a song, your own personal song.

In other words, listen to my surroundings and accept them instead of hearing individual noises as nuisances. At first, i honestly thought it was stupid. i didn’t enjoy meditating when there was people around or if the lights were not off or even with a candle flickering was pretty distracting. Silence and a pitch black room was a must when i wanted to meditate. I cant remember where i was but i remember what i heard. I was standing in a room and i hear the noise from outside, instantly feeling like this wont work. Cars were beeping and i remember a baby  crying but the sound of the wind blowing through trees was soothing. I chose to start with that. It took a while but once i accepted the noisy cars and the baby’s cry it wasn’t distracting. It became relaxing, the cars beeping were consistent so it became a melody and the baby’s cry was almost an ad lib. It wasn’t until the noisy cars stopped, that i was instantly out of my deep thought. Weird how things that would normally distract me during meditation became essential. It was a unique experience and i use that exercise now every time i hear a nuisance. 

           Digital device change people’s lives. Digital devices are popular in the world because people depend on them. The device that I use on a regular basis is my phone. Cell phones become an important part in our daily lives. I use a phone to chat, make calls, and be on social media. When I use my phone, I totally forget about time and spent more time on it than I expected. As a result, I have less time to do my other work which gives me a headache. At that moment, I get mad at myself why I use phone. In addition, When I do my homework, phone always distract me from studying and waste my time. For example, I get messages and notifications of videos. If I didn’t reply back, the people who messaged me get mad at me because they didn’t get immediate response.  At that time, I feel why phones are created because I cannot manage my time when I have my phone with me. I know that phones are not bad, they are made for to connect world but it just me who spent too much time on it. For managing my time, I have to limit my time so that I don’t messed up my time which is very important in today’s world.