Wrong Turn

Just like how the horror movie, wrong turn is, my digital life is full of wrong and incomplete turns. I admire people who launch apps and get straight to the point. I think it’s cool that you take your phone or laptop and then say oh, I want to check my email and get straight to that. Mmmm guess what? I can’t relate.

If I remember clearly, two weeks ago, I had to research on a paper. I didn’t have my laptop with me so I decided to use my phone. Who even sent me? My plan was to get to safari, do my thing, do any form of analysis I had to and come out. I actually got to safari safely and then you know the bottom swipe thing on iPhones? Before I realized I was on Snapchat.

Trust me, I have no idea how I got there but it cost me about 30 minutes because being there meant getting distracted. When I realized that wasn’t where I wanted to be, I left the app and went to my home screen. I know you’re thinking I went back to safari but no, your girl did not. I tripped and fell on ecency.

Listen, you probably might be thinking maybe notifications distracted me or something but I have notifications turned off in my settings so you know what that means- no notifications for me. I went there willingly yet unconsciously. If that even makes sense. Right after Ecency, I found myself in the middle of voices and then I came back to my senses that I was now listening to a podcast.

It’s sometimes even scary how I could take my phone and launch an app with a particular reason but immediately forget what exactly I wanted to do the moment the app is launched. There are days I have to ask my mom or brothers if they were using my phone because I try so hard but do not even remember doing certain things on my phone.Weird right? I know.

You know how they say if you forget things you want to do in seconds, it means you saw an alien? And that alien probably wiped your memory? It just make me wonder how many aliens I live with but maybe this is a sign to tell @fashtioluwa to let his people free me.

You know the funny thing? It’s not as if I don’t know what exactly I take my phone for. And It’s not as if I forget the main activity I want to do on my phone. Someway somehow, I always find myself somewhere I’m not supposed to be. Imagine going to reply to a hi on discord and then I later end up on WhatsApp or YouTube or even freeform.

And it’s like I keep on being at wrong places at the wrong times. Do I like it? No. Am I doing anything about it? Yes. What am I doing? Well, that’s going to be in part 2 of wrong turn if I ever Premiere it.