ADDICTION

I hate to admit I have an addictive personality.   It is in the genes. 

Besides my addiction to strong dark coffee; strong & dark chocolates;, I have found that there are numerous things of the legal kind that I find myself unable to be without.

It has become something I am very well aware all the time, and don’t even try to address the problem.  

It’s called  “the screen addiction.”

I wake up in the middle of the night; I check my smart phone.  Pretending to check the time, there are always messages in different application modes, from around the world.    No emergencies from loved ones, I go back to sleep.   First thing in the morning, I check my smart phone.  Go through the messages and email before morning ablutions.  With my dark strong coffee, I then go to my laptop and go through emails, facebook, linkedin, and any other applications that invade my crowded machine, while CNN is discussing Obamacare on my 29 inch TV.  This is just the first 3 hours of my waking moments and I’ve already clocked 2h:20 minutes on screen addiction.    This is just me.   

What about the rest of the world?

 

In 2000 there were roughly 500 million cell phones in the world.  Ten years later that number is nearing 5 billion.  And these phones aren’t merely devices for talking with friends;  they take pictures, send emails, play movies, surf the Web and even track fertility times, to ensure more humanoids multiply to repeat same.

Now this picture on the right is seriously bad  >>>>>



The Kaiser Family Foundation, focusing on major health care issues facing the US and the US role in global health policy, published the results of a study that 8 to 18- year-olds log an average of 71/2 hours a day with media, including television, computers, cell phones, and music players.  I do not  fall in that age group, but my daily exposure to electronic media is an almost unbelievable 10 hours per day.

Do I have to go to and declare, as in “My name is Ruby and I am a Screen Addict.”

How would going cold turkey help with my life when all things on my laptop and Iphone practically runs “everything” in my life. 

I shall not be weaned off it.   Its attached to me forever.