If I could time travel within my own life, I would like to go back to before the internet and smartphones became easily accessible. I simply can’t seem to recall the different things I did with my time or the alternative ways people managed to get things done that a smartphone does today. 

How did we wait at doctor’s appointments or at train stations? I certainly didn’t carry a book everywhere!

Even my parents’ generation, who berated us for being Addicted to our phones are addicted themselves, and I find them scrolling endlessly/mindlessly through social media and forwarding en masse pictures of flowers and babies bearing the choicest greetings of the day. 

Am I losing the life skill of keeping myself occupied/entertained without this ubiquitous device?