I am annoyed when my daughter is always on a mobile phone watching YouTube. Mostly, she is watching some useless shorts, featuring kids doing nonsense. Then, she scrolls to another video, to another and on and on. I call her for something, and she ignores me. I repeat, she says, 'aa', and continues. Eventually, I often lose my temper and shout at her. And then comes the discomfort that it is not only about her. At the family gatherings, I see every kid (and big kids) is watching their mobiles. They show the mobile to each other and giggle. They seem to have no interest in what's going on around. We go to lunch together in the office. As soon as we finish ordering, or even before that, we all reach out to our mobile phones and start checking them. Then we start to respond to our emails or WhatsApp messages. The feeling of urgency kills the short lunch break. In the morning, when I sit down for breakfast, I do the same. I open my emails and start to scroll. And my family get ...
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