Phones have become a necessity. They carry our, messages, pictures, etc. Everything’s easier when you have technology at the tip of your fingers…until you don’t.

Being phone-less is not the move, at all. There are SO many things that can go wrong when you don’t have a phone. I speak from experience, so let’s pause for a second and have a little story time.

Here I am, waking up for school on a Monday. I’m pulling up to school and notice that it seemed oddly quiet. I mean, yeah, I was ten minutes late, but there was no sign of any life at all.

I walk in and go to my class…nobody was there. Why? We had a two-hour delay, which I had no idea about and therefore had to walk home in the two degrees Celsius weather. If I had a phone, I would’ve gotten the memo and slept in.

How would you feel having to ask people for the time every two seconds? Or ask if you can use their phone to call someone? Or even better, not being able to Google any questions you need answered? ‘Cause let me tell you, Google is how I finesse these grades, and now it’s gone.

As you can see, a phoneless life already seems miserable. I felt like a caveman. My only form of entertainment was Netflix, but I already binge-watched every good show on there…I mean haven’t we all?

I hate having a slip of the tongue where I say something like, “Yeah, I’ll text it to you,” or “Send me a picture of it,” then I’d get a smart comment back like, “How’s that gonna work out?” Thanks for the reminder that I’m stuck in the stone age.

Most the entertainment we get is from our phones… So what would we do without it?

Here’s a great way to answer that. I’ve NEVER gone fishing… who even goes fishing anymore? But here I was, fishing on a weekend with my uncle… just for “fun.”

Now the reason I’ve experienced all these unfortunate events is mostly because I’ve broken the same phone more than four times already. The first and second times, it dropped on concrete. Yes, I had a case and screen protector, but it was an iPhone so you know how that goes. The third time was the toilet.

So here’s a helpful tip: before sitting on the toilet for a number one or two, make sure your phone is out your pockets! Because it won’t end well otherwise. The fourth time my friend dropped it and the screen completely came off.

Of course, there is one unexpected benefit to life without a phone: you come to pay more attention to the things around you. New experiences might come your way and you’ll take them on just for the fun of it… am I going fishing again? Of course not, but phone or not I’ll go out more often and live my best life.