The Cell That Is A Phone

How do you waste the most time every day?

Aren’t we all locked in the cell of our phones? Sometimes I can’t help but reconsider the meaning of the word “cell” in relationship to phones.

Clearly qualifying a phone as a cell was to describe its compactness and that it is a single unit designed for individual use.

But in recent years, the definition of cell has drawn some reconsideration from me as it has to do with its relationship to a phone. Here are a couple of ways that I’ve come to see this word:

1. Cell: the electronic device that is deeply ingrained into every cell of our bodies thus taking over the functioning of our systems and earning the “smart” description.

2. Cell: The prison that locks up our whole existence, and leaves us little room to seek life outside its confines.

The phone is how most people have come to live life, own expressions, gain visibility, make an earning, learn about other geographical locations that we may never visit in a whole lifetime, and engage in activism of some sort.

It is rare to come across a human being who is not locked up in their phones. Some of us do believe that we’re locked up in it for the “right” reasons. It gives us an air of superiority to be able to say that we have mastered the right use of the smart cell phones.

But is there really a “right” way to get locked up in this cell of a phone? I doubt. Not if the time factor is introduced to it. So there, we all know what takes our time the most. And I put it that way to relieve myself of the guilt of admitting that my cell phone is where I waste time the most.

I mean, if everyone is doing it, it can’t be so bad. Yeah?