Family Gathering in a Digital World of Ours

In a world like ours, where smartphones have really interfered with our way of life, gone are the days when families sat down telling moonlight stories and creating long-lasting memories. Such beautiful moments in this digitalized world would have been interrupted by ringing tones and unending notifications.

The question of whether the use of phones should be banned during family gatherings is a way of limiting unnecessary distractions. When attention is divided, there won't be engaging family interactions, leading to a very poor emotional connection among family members.

Also, the banning of phones during family gatherings would foster everyone being focused on creating long-lasting memories. Without any divided attention, everyone would be ready to give a listening ear to each other's shared stories and contributions, aligning them.

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There is a lot of importance in banning the use of phones during important gatherings like families sitting together for the purpose of bonding and creating long-lasting relationships. In our modernized world, this policy seems very difficult to strive for, as smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives.

Apart from entertainment purposes, they are also a source of income for many individuals. Trying to ask someone who is a writer to drop his smartphone for a period of hours, though understanding the importance of family gathering, would try to defend himself or herself on the importance of deadlines and how he needs to catch up in finishing and submitting an article to his boss.

I just feel striking a balance is the only way out in situations when phone banning becomes difficult. Understanding when excessive use of it becomes a disturbance would be great. Implementing this possibility in my household is definitely not possible for me.

With my current writing job, which is daily, and my always trying to meet deadlines, a family get-together would definitely not turn out well for me because I will definitely not agree to drop my phone for as short as 30 minutes, mostly when it's in the evening during when I have all the time after my offline work.

Implementing this in the future is easy if the work I do changes. If it's a job that is not phone-related, then I wouldn't have any problem with dropping my phone for as long as possible because I don't see phone or social media conversations to be more fun and engaging than the one I'm having with people that mean the world to me.

As much as I value my family, my finances are also something I shouldn't take for granted because a little glitch can lead to firing from the employer, which would leave me to find another job in a very competitive online job platform.

Some might say, will one day lagging behind in delivery lead to immediate dismissal of one's duty? Companies differ, the same with bosses; the company I write for is one where the CEO sees the salary like he's giving his workers Mana from heaven, and a mistake to deliver on a day is a replacement, leaving other workers to take up your work until there is a new employee.