Keilin_4's Journal, 28 Jun 19

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I give people my land line number and tell people that I don't use a cell phone. I say leave a message if I don't answer.. Then I get weird looks after I tell them this.. this prevents stress for me ,, I totally hate the way this world is now, I feel sorry for the kids because of phones and internets.. You tube crap..and so on .. The world is going down the tubes for sure...  

Yep!! A big reason I left FB!! Nosey book. 

The proliferation of computers in our pockets and the evolution of faster, more connected, more available networks has given rise to lightspeed human communication regardless of where people are on the planet. Perhaps our psychological makeup as a species hasn't caught up to this reality quite yet. A good network on the internet responds in milliseconds, 99.999% of the time, under full load. Maybe some of us expect that kind of machine-like reliability from other humans, too. Play with your kids, go hiking, go camping. Unplug for a bit and enjoy the outdoors. It helps me sometimes!  

I starting 2 dislike cellphones also. these robo calls are going 2 make the world go nuts. they got so bad my ringers and notifications are off. 

I completely agree! You kind of have to teach people that you are not on call 24/7. Just like your WOE, you do you and others will have to be okay with it, or not, but in the end it's something they have to deal with. Don't wait until you're my age to figure out your life belongs to you. 

Good comments everyone. 

Yes. Great comments, thank you soo much guys! 💞💙 "My life belongs to me", I am going to print that out and put it on my mirrors, refrigerator, etc. 

I’m like Bells 🔔 no calling. Calls are for business only. I don’t respond! 

I think you can set your phone to do not disturb and have it send them a message. You could make the message say something like ‘I’m fine just have my hands full and can’t answer. I’ll call/text you back as soon as I’m able’.  

Thank you!😊 I will have use that option Peeperjj 👍 

Lol yw. I’ve considered it. However I have this one friend that would call me back repeatedly thinking I was just texting that to her to avoid her calls lol. She’s impatient.  

Same here. People are starting to get me. I don’t apologize (as if I did wrong by not being at their beckon call) but I’ll tell them that I’m not glued to my phone in general as of since-I-got-a-cellphone, and I promise I wasn’t trying to ignore or be rude. It’s just the way I operate during the day. And then I tell them it will happen again and again for as long as they know me, most likely. (If they want to be offended for the rest of our lives, and simply ignore the fact that I’m just different, not cruel, then they can have at it.) You aren’t hurting their feelings by the way. They’re coming up with rules for you that they think you aren’t ‘obeying’ and are therefore being hurtful? No no no. They can adjust if they want to and you can remain your own person and continue to be polite about it but straightforward, with out having to accomodate your life to everyone else but you. All of my friends and family get it now and understand. They don’t take it personally and some of them are starting to do the same.  

@Jewel, I feel the same. I AM glued to my phone but there are times one just can’t answer (toilet hehe, teacher conference, appointments etc). One friend constantly calls back and leaves a message or texts by call 3-4. Then she’s hurt. She can wait a week to return my call but I’m expected to answer hers immediately and talk 15-30 minutes no matter what I’m doing. Once I was taking my kid around trying to get a last minute physical we learned we needed by the next day. Another time I was taking my kid to have her foot looked at when a horse stepped on her. That time she was accommodating but the others she wasn’t/isn’t.  

I can't really talk on my phone with my little one around me, he is so noise and gets upset because he wants to talk too. Or sometimes it's his naptime and he sleeps with bedtime music that is in my phone, I use to have a social media friend, everything was ok until that friend started to calling me at midnight. Every time I was online. I hate that too. Now that person is blocked  

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