00:00Hi, can I ask you one question? When was the last time you watched a sunset without taking
00:06out your phones? Not to post it, not to record it, just to watch it? I asked myself the same
00:12question few weeks ago and honestly, I did not remember. That's when I realized something very
00:18important that we are living in a generation that documents almost everything but experience
00:23a very little. Think about it, at concerts, thousands of phones are on the air recording
00:29a singer that will probably never watch through the same video again. At cafes, our food get cold
00:35because we are searching for a perfect angle to capture it. On vacations, we are busy creating
00:41memories for social media that we forget to create memories for ourselves. Somewhere along the way,
00:47life stopped being something we lived and become something we uploaded. Now, don't get me wrong,
00:53I'm not saying social media is a bad place or something. It helps you to learn, connect, express
00:59ourselves. It gives ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But here's the question we really
01:05ask. Are we using technology or technology is using us? Five minutes break turn into hours of scrolling.
01:12We pick up our phone to reply one message and suddenly we are watching strangers organizing their
01:19wardrobes, another stranger cooking. And someone else's life, we have started comparing it to our lives.
01:26And before we even know it, we have spent our time watching everyone else's story instead of creating
01:33our own. I think the biggest thing we lost isn't time, it's attention. Because attention is where life
01:40happens. You can't truly laugh with your friends if half of your mind is waiting for a notification.
01:46You can't enjoy rain if your first thought is whether it can make a good reel or not. The saddest
01:52part is that we don't even realize that what we are missing until the moment has already passed.
01:58Years from now, I don't think we'll remember how many likes a picture received. We'll remember the
02:03people who made us laugh so hard that we forget to check our phones. We'll remember the sunset we actually
02:09watched. So today I don't want to tell you to delete your social media or throw away your phones.
02:14I just want to leave you with one small challenge. Next time when something beautiful happens,
02:20a sunset, a family dinner, a road trip or a cup of chai with your friend, wait. Give yourself 10
02:27seconds
02:27before taking out your phones. Look around, feel the moment because maybe the most beautiful memory isn't
02:33the ones stored in your gallery. Maybe they are the ones stored in our heart. And maybe life never meant
02:39to live through a screen. It always meant to live through our own eyes. Thank you.
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