PHONES AT WORK

On Friday, I was scratching my head. I didn’t really know what to choose as my topic to blog about on my mini weekly blogging. My friend, though I hate mentioning his names in most of my writing over and over again – is, an easy guy that I have known for a year or so now. Apart from soccer, which he doesn’t fancy anyway, he is a book kind of dude that I would discuss any book we have read and brainstorm on the themes, stylistic devices used and

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more that’s required. “Hey mony”, he would always begin like that when he calls or Whats’App me. ‘Hey,’ I would also reply with that nature – like kind of high school conversations that we device to win the hearts of our little ones that we used to embrace their company in the total abyss of darkness from the administrative surveillance – making sure that we’re never snap red-handed and humiliated by the malicious teachers that teach gorilla in action and democracy in theory. ‘Hey man, what’sup?’ He would always ask even if there were nothing “sups”. ‘By the way, how far have you gone with the play?’ Now? Why would I even turn on my data to ask such things when there is much time to discuss and even review the whole thing, when there is less work pressure on us? ‘No! I haven’t gone far, but I will harden it soon.’ He said. This is called digital temptation, right?

Believe it or not, this is what will always happen to you when you’re such type who is always glued to your phone – especially if you are that WhatsApp victim who likes discussing what’s going to happen later after work or Saturday or Sunday, or rather discuss politics. For the case of the men; and, for women, more especially those that are below the age of thirty and few above thirty, they would always wants to pause all that is on their desks to checkout the latest shoes that are being advertise on Pintrest, what’s the latest dress that Kim Kadarshian is wearing on Instagram.

On campus, it is easy to see students switch to phones than to a boring lecture that is going on if they’re not getting out. Though we don’t see the repercussions of this afar, there are more damages that we have encountered than we don’t know in this whole thing. There are kids that their performances have dropped due to phone addiction though they still deny it – rather, blame it on “I don’t know, mom”.

Just imagine, you are admitted in the hospital. It is ten o’clock in the morning, and you’re supposed to receive your dose of  injection and then the female nurse receives a phone call from one of her former classmates. Trust me, you would be staying with that syringe on b*tt for the next thirty minutes, incase you are used to suffering or plug it out to complain to the administration for the ill-treatments. Dr. Deng, on the other side, would do equally the same thing if the message on Whats’App interrupts him and he is working on a patient.

However, do not think that it’s happening to Juba natives alone; neither is it happening within the jurisdiction of South Sudan – it is the same crisis that every manager around the globe is facing. It is happening all over the world. Work delays sometimes because we want to spend more time on phone. Students want to watch YouTube and Netflix and refuses to study. Married men would refuse to talk one or two things out with their wives, instead, just either choose to remain numb or “YES” everything. So many lives have been lost due to careless – where drivers have been talking on phones while driving or chat while driving, human accidents have been caused because people are chatting while walking on the busy streets.

I’m not an exceptional, myself. All the electronics disrupts, but nothing is like a phone that is connected to Internet. Before I finished writing this article, I have switch a dozen times to check out who drop a joke or a magnificent piece of poem on our Kahlimat Poetry Club because it is the only well where I drink the inspiration from. In short, your phone can be your enemy.

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