Digital life and gadgets have become an integral part of our lives; without them, we are “like without hands.” We lead a social life on the phone, do shopping, dream, choose a vacation package, get useful and useless information, and here many will agree with me that it’s convenient. BUT This article is a little about something else, it’s about wasting time with a smartphone, TV, tablet. Which of us remember what he did last weekend, the weekend before last, Wednesday evening last week? About the same thing... right? Many of us are nothing at all. Yes, we go to stores, have breakfast, dinner, visit cafes, visit grandmothers, but this is more like “ritualism”, we perform these actions in a formalized manner. We come to a cafe and sit on the phone, go to the hairdresser and sit on a gadget or watch TV, we take the children to the section and look at our smartphone during training, instead of tasting coffee and cake or being happy for the result of our child in the section (thank God that at some point in time we did not have a smartphone at hand, we managed start a family, have children and earn money to go to a cafe). If you ask us, how is it at the training session, the cafe, or what color are the walls in the hairdresser at the entrance, then many of us will answer - I don’t remember. And in general, perhaps it’s not important, you say. Perhaps the walls are not important, but the “ritualism” of living life on the phone does not color life itself, we do not live it, this very life. At work we are outside of work, in the family we are outside of family. Where are we anyway? What should we do? How to reduce the speed of digital life? Our lives are becoming subjectively shorter, are we in the flow of another life, not tied to the place and people where it is here and now? For myself, I have found several ways to solve this addiction outside of work hours (of course, there are different rules at work, but perhaps you will take note of some things here too): Pick up the phone only if you need to make a call, asking yourself “Do I really is this necessary? "Exclude social networks from your phone, of course, if the presence of social networks is not related to your work, and you can afford it. At home, select a gadget-free zone, even if you live in a one-room apartment, let the apartment be free from numbers , and the smartphone will remain at the doorstep, where the keys are. Switch to communicating with friends and relatives using voice communication, as it was 8 years ago, without WhatsApp and telegram channels. Determine the time when you can quench the “passion of communication”, even if there are restrictions will be within 1 hour a day. After all the above procedures, I propose to count the freed up time on each day, and generally imagine what you could do with this freed up time. I’m not forcing you to fill this space with reading books, learning to play the piano, or getting a second or third, or maybe even a first higher education, but maybe it’s still worth raising your eyes and paying attention to life? PS The article was written shortly after my gadget broke down, in Overall, I’m glad about what happened. Remember, you bring meaning to life, with the right guidance; if it’s wrong, someone lives it for you, it’s even worse when a gadget lives it for you. See you again.