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<strong>free</strong>dom from technology<br />
Doesn’t my smartphone make me "smarter"?<br />
For one week I decided to leave my smartphone<br />
switched of.<br />
I looked at some food, but it didn't look so good,<br />
even though it was kept in the fridge and was stil<br />
within date. My body said "No" to eating it<br />
instantly. My mind wanted to know whether I could<br />
stil eat it. So I felt the urge to switch on the<br />
smartphone to check whether I could eat the food.<br />
But I l<strong>is</strong>tened to my body, and didn’t eat that food.<br />
Instead, I cooked something that was fresh. Even<br />
though the "smart" phone could have told me that I<br />
could stil eat it, I threw it away. I realized that the<br />
smartphone made me lose trust in myself, in my<br />
body’s signals.<br />
If you no longer trust <strong>your</strong>self, who <strong>is</strong> left to trust?<br />
Your body <strong>is</strong> smarter than <strong>your</strong> phone.<br />
Isn’t it great to capture every moment forever?<br />
You come to a beautiful scene in nature. You take<br />
out <strong>your</strong> camera, but the light <strong>is</strong>n’t right. You can’t<br />
take a proper picture. You try to adjust the setings,<br />
but it stil <strong>is</strong>n’t right. You get stressed because other<br />
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