Today, people only live through their phones, at school in the hallways, during class, and during lunch. People barely notice others around them. “Friends” sit together but spend more time scrolling than talking. Somehow, sending reels and TikTok’s counts more as talking than actual talking does.

Every moment becomes something that has to be captured on video or as a picture, and can’t just be appreciated. When someone goes to eat somewhere, they need ten pictures before they even eat. When someone goes on vacation, unless you have a thousand pictures from it, the vacation never happened. Even at concerts, everyone watches it through their phone camera as if the video beats the actual experience. Before someone eats their food, they have to find the perfect YouTube video, and by the time they do, their food is cold!

Most people don’t even remember simple math, and rely on phones to do it for them. When the phone is at five percent, so is the owner, and it becomes an emergency as they race to find a charger. At this point, people rely on phones so much that if phones were to disappear for a day, they would be going crazy by the time lunch came around.