Why I do not use a Mobile

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Why I do not use a Mobile

Why I do not use a Mobile
 

Mind you I have a land phone.

Read this in tandem with attention deficit (new syndrome defined by me) below.
 

This is something I posted elsewhere.

I have 100 or more reasons why I do not have or use a cell phone.

I will list them as they come to my mind but not in any order of priority.
 

As an intern I hated all calls mobile included since it meant, a batch of new arrival of small kids who have arrived in absolutely appalling condition.
Some of them fitting due to low blood sugar nearing zero.
 

In fact, I had 8 to 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar down to zero.
 

The government at that time told the public it was encephalitis and I proved them wrong without even my medical registration completed.

Then in 6 months later when I went to collect my own data they had disappeared mysteriously from, medical records.
 

Then what I did subsequently, I have to pen down on a latter date of my life nearing my death!

One thing was sure leave this messy Health Service and I decided to leave the Public Sector Health Service and I was glad I did that and if you read Dengue Dilemma elsewhere in my writings, one can easily guess it.
 

It has deteriorated in quality even though it has expanded in number.

 

As a doctor I hated bad news on telephone.

 

We rarely hear good news when on duty.

 

Later in life when cell phone came, I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cell phone.

It is a public nuisance.

 

It is a nuisance when the cell phone owner has switched it off when you really needed him /her.

 

When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent interruptions. 

 

I love silence in public places. 

 

Even though, I don’t use it I have to foot the bill (kids telephone bills).

 

 No work get done in public officers.

 

They are busy answering their private calls of nature and it is more frequent than the real call of nature.

 

It is cheaper to redirect a message by email that should end up as junk or gossip.

 

We use it for gossip not for creative work. 

 

 It is private enemy number one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them cost you more than you actually own them.

I think you got the picture correct. 

I think it is enough for today but I will add more on future date when I run short of a topic to write. 

 

Memory and Gadgets


(Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction.

Many years ago, I posted an article on the web regarding memory specially in reference to Buddhist Monks of yesteryear (not today´s TV acting MahaMewna Type) and all the points except my assertion on Mediation Practice (Focused attention on the presence) was copied by an Author of the Scientific American Publication and recently by another author.

This is one reason I thought of writing few books before my memory fails by default and old age.

It is rather loss of short term memory and now I have coined a fancy Medical Term.

Few years ago (I still do not take a note or reminder but devised a 24 hour simple protocol to enhance day to day activity) I noticed lapses in my memory and got activated.

1. Won´t use a telephone, but buy a cheap cellphone when I go abroad and drop it into a bin in the airport (this is the biggest handicap and in the middle of your work one may give a call with a low priority-gossip related call).

Who Cares.

Thank god one can switch off the cell, then what is the use of a telephone if it is not doing it job, transfer a message.

I use my land phone at my discretion since I pay the bill.
Not even the Telecom (delay in payment) or the a bank officer can break that law and break into my freedom.
 

2. Won´t sit in front of the TV and watch web videos unless it is related to animals, especially elephants.

Baby elephant dead was trapped in a tree in this country.

There is a video of a elephant mum protecting its young baby from hyenas (we have to protect the young one's from political hyenas and some rabid monks in saffron cloth).

3. Live with Living things, the dog, fish, and plants (including water plants).
All three will die if I do not have some simple protocol, not so rigid but to remind me that there are other lives on this planet (that others things also do exist) in relation to me.

Fortunately fish can go on for 10 days without food.

If neglected any longer toxic algae will kill them.

A dog will die within three days, if there is no other care giver.

Believe it or not Dogs never use telephone even in an emergency, they only BARK.

My dog in particular will start barking for no reason when I am on the phone.
 

He wants me to stop talking quickly and he has not got a degree in economics but knows how to cut my telephone bill.
 

The garden will go to wilderness in no time.

All these little things one has to be mindful, however busy one is in day to day lives, even one has servants to look after these jobs.

They will never do them right in my experience.
 

4. Use the computer and the email productively.

5. Keep in touch with family and family friends in person.

When one sees a friend, just stop for a few minutes and greet them and have some empathy.
 

You may not see them again would be run over by a vehicle driven by a fast track lumpen with a cell phone in hand.
 

I am predicting now with Facebook and low priority web videos, the present young generation will hit a very low point, in their middle age with attention deficit and I am going to coin the Medical Term now, Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction (AD-R-TA- RTA stands for Road Traffic Accidents and some of these gadgets may trigger an accident on the road too).