No more smart phone

Hello everyone.
With much consideration, I decided to get rid of my smart phone. After a recent relapse, I just haven't had the discipline to stay away from porn. I have tried many porn blockers and accountability apps but there is always a way around them and the temptation was too much. I feel quite positive about this though. There is something so freeing about not being able to access adult sites. This has been a long time coming because some part of me held onto the idea of a smart phone and the things that it can do. Most of these reasons were to satisfy my ego in some way and the rest I know I can live without. It took careful insight to recognise this and move beyond it.

If there is anyone who is really struggling because of their technology, there are always other options. My new phone (a brick) can still do whatsapp and can still access the internet but the screen is so small and the keypad takes, lets just say, many moments to use, that it's positively repulsive to use for porn. I laugh trying to use it, but it takes me back to when I was a little boy and I got my first phone. As for social media well, there is plenty of talk about the negative effects of it here and on the internet. At the end of the day we have to think about what is more important in the long term. This doesn't have to be forever, but it will take time.

I hope anyone who reads this gets inspired to give this a try. Something really has shifted inside me and it feels quite awesome. Going to give NoFap a real go this time. No more sitting around, crying and waiting for things to happen.

Be happy

Side note: Next time you are in public, take a moment to observe the people around you on their phones. On the bus, on the side walk, RESTAURANTS! It's a smart phone zombie apocalypes out their folks!

 

Thank you

 

Its a Nokia 2720 flip phone.

 

Thats fare enough. This is just an idea for those who can go without.

 

They say it has brought us together, but people have never been so fare apart. It's like loneliness is a pandemic in itself. I think technology is great, I don't want to come across as anti tech, but as a society, we need to start observing the habits we form around them. I know that AA has been hosting meetings on skype during this pandemic all over the world and that it has been of huge benefit for people in recovery because they rely on these meetings so much.