Note 1: Text your mom, first of all, to go through this dare, or else she might end up thinking you’re dead. Not just your mom, in this case, text your work colleagues as well prior.

Note 2: Do not wonder what to do with your hands, people used to live a good life without a gadget in their hands. You aren’t that abnormal.

Note 3: You'll thank me later.

A Day Without Gadgets Can Lead to Surprising Discoveries

Okay, so the dare is Digital Detox for a day. We at HF dare you to stay away from your phone or any gadget of that sort to find yourself within. When the pandemic hit, the average screen time for a person increased to 60% of their usual capacities. This kept me wondering about the increased markets of ophthalmologists and optical businesses in the year succeeding.

Take the bait, It will be worth it. You can't imagine your life without it, can you? Give one genuine try.

The Digital Detox Dare

So it's Sunday morning, you wake up and Damn! I have to take the dare today. On a usual day, the first thing you would have done is checked your phone for the time/alarm/important messages. Today is different, since you are into a dare, you cannot cheat. Instead, you take it sportily and make that effort. Is it really that difficult?

Instead, you look out of the window and there is a couple of pigeons sitting on your window sill, they have managed to make your sill beautiful with their potties while you were so busy instagramming your wake-up glows. Apparently, they were here for a long time for you to notice. Well, it's their place now and you can do nothing about it. So you just sushh them and make your way into the bathroom.

Normally you would be reading the news or just surfing the Facebook feeds while you excrete, but today you realized your bathroom lock needs to be fixed and you have a total of 64 tiles in your bathroom. Also while you let go of your metabolic waste, and your brain is totally free of what your Facebook friends are doing, you come up with a great Start-Up idea you were brainstorming for the past 6 months.All great Ideas are discovered on that potty seat, quoted The Unknown.

Also, you were able to draft that most important presentation in your head within minutes. The magic has just begun. You freshen up, have a shower and look at that mirror beautifully. Oh my God, I am so handsome/pretty. Since you are deprived of that gadget today, you have ample time to get dressed to your heart’s content. Enters Satisfaction.

On the way to your workplace, you get a chance to look around at the people with whom you might be crossing paths every day but you never had a chance to look up from the phone. And you realized your watchman salutes you every day. Today, since you noticed, you waved a hand at him too, and then came sheer pleasure on his face. Enters Happiness in making people happy. Indeed, today was different.

It was a great day at the office, you were all smiles and cheers, your face glowing, eyes fresh and a great start-up idea to share with a well-versed presentation. Enters Applause! Applause!

You come home, thinking of ordering dinner, but alas! The bet isn’t over yet! You think of visiting the salon and bringing dinner on the way home. Great idea! An amazing spa session, manicure, pedicure and whatnot. You also had a chat with the one cleaning your dirty nails and turning them into beauty. You learnt she/he doesn’t have a phone with internet and how he/she is happy with her/his family and struggles to pay his/her debts. You practically covered a story of a person working at a salon and the struggles of the mediocre. Enters Gratitude.

Since Zomato or Swiggy wasn’t an option today, you choose to eat that long-craved dilliwale chhole bhature. And you realize that chacha is the same one who gave you free bhaturas when you were a kid. Enter Nostalgia.

After returning home, you walk into the study and wipe dust over that untouched novel you left in the middle. Seemed it was waiting for you to find out what happened next. Enters Retrieval of passion.

Suddenly you feel like dozing off but your eyes are fresh as a daisy, your mind isn’t confused anymore, you feel cut off from that vicious circle of enviable people and you feel complete within.

Conclussion

Digital detox may seem like a daunting task, but it is worth the effort. It allows us to rediscover ourselves and the world around us, leading to a sense of happiness and fulfillment. So, go ahead and take the challenge. You never know what you might discover about yourself and the world around you.

Enters Content! A Smirk of triumph!

Feel free to share your story of digital detox and we will get back to you.