#16 I challenged myself to a “no phone day”, and here’s how it went...
5 August 2025
Entry #16
5 August 2025
Status: NOT on the phone.
My friend said something that spooked me the other day.
“You know how they say Dajjal will come at the end of the world to destroy us all?”
What an interesting topic to sip a nice smoothie to.
“Err yeah? Did you happen to see him recently?”
“You know how they say he has one eye?”
“Yeah…” as I looked around nervously, half-expecting Dajjal to be behind me.
“What if Dajjal is actually our phone?” she asked as she showed me the phone screen and how it has one camera on the front. “See, that’s the one eye. And it’s already controlling us because we can’t live without it,” she concluded her theory.
Suddenly my smoothie didn’t taste as nice.
I found myself spooked by that for days! Ever since that conversation, I’ve been trying to make sure I’m not addicted to the phone. I put it away when I find myself doom-scrolling. I keep looking at my it and thinking, you don’t control me, don’t you think you control me, missy. I control you.
So I wanted to see if I can live without my phone for one day. Just one day. 24 hours.
I challenged myself last Sunday.
Did I succeed?
Let’s find out.
Here’s how the challenge went…