Day of Unplugging

Every year on the first Friday of March, International Turn Off Day is celebrated Activists suggest forgetting for a day about your smartphones, tablets, laptops and other delights of the digital age Why is all this being done? What's the use of something like this? These are the first questions that come to mind for the uninitiated Let's figure it out together Today, when the global web has tightly intertwined the planet, a person has an obsessive thought - there is no life without the Internet We cannot do without water, food and air, and everything else is the benefit of the digital age It is much more convenient with them, but even without them a person will not be lost If residents of a remote outback have never used the Internet, they will never feel that they missed something important, so the importance of the Internet is greatly overestimated People who start each morning by talking to a smartphone and watching news feeds become truly addicted Take away their gadgets, and they will begin to behave like typical patients in a clinic for addicts - they will feel restless, begin to rush around mindlessly, experience severe irritation and bouts of rage, which alternate with periods of complete apathy, when it seems that life has no meaning Unlike smokers, they suffer only from psychological addiction, that is, the problem is exclusively in the head Internet addiction is a mental disorder that needs to be treated The recipe is quite simple - a couple of spoons of desire, a pinch of willpower and enthusiasm You need to fight this addiction in the same way as with others - give up what causes it At first, it will be very difficult to overcome the obsessive desire to use the gadget and check all your accounts To get through this period easier, you need to resort to “replacement therapy” and simply do other things and hobbies Time flies unnoticed when a person is truly passionate about something Crisis dates are three days and seven days from the moment of refusal; after them it will be much easier When a whole month has passed, you can already celebrate your small victory This holiday has a short history, so finding its origins is not that difficult Initially, it was just a mass protest by a group of American activists who proposed to abandon the global web for one day Gradually the number of people who took part in it grew Several years passed and activists decided to go further - this time to abandon not only the Internet, but in general all the gadgets that take up more and more space in the life of a modern person The action went far beyond the United States American activists have found like-minded people in many countries, including Russia The main idea of ​​this holiday is to clearly demonstrate the dependence on the global web, from which thousands of people suffer In the best traditions of heavy smokers and shopaholics, they do not admit the existence of a problem, brush it aside and convince themselves and others that they can give up the Internet at any time, but even a few hours of idleness and boredom can seem like real torture if such a person does not have will be at hand on a laptop or at least a smartphone This day should be dedicated to your loved ones and real, live communication with them You can go on a visit or to the park, sit in a cafe or restaurant, or go out into nature with a large group A person must remember what it’s like to sit in the company of friends or family and not twitch from every new notification on a smartphone People who get caught up in social networks and virtual communication forget the taste of real life Leisure in reality is in no way inferior to spending time on the Internet Moreover, it has much more advantages, but today people strive to simplify their lives as much as possible, so instead of the faces of dear and beloved people, they see their avatars, and instead of real conversations they prefer dry correspondence generously flavored with emoticons Turn Off Gadgets Day is a reminder to all of humanity We must not forget how enormously valuable what we have in reality is, and how dilapidated the castles in the air created on the global web actually turn out to be