9 ways life was better before smartphones

Look up from your phone and start living.

Of course, if you’re reading this article on your smartphone, you should probably finish it first.

With thanks to Captain Morgan, we are looking at the perks of life when you leave the phone alone for a while and just #LiveLikeTheCaptain.

So without further ado, here are 9 ways life was better before smartphones.

Speaking to another person on public transport wasn’t a sign of madness

People actually interacted with each other… crazy, right?

You were actually able to have an argument

At the first sign of a dispute, you didn’t jump to ask Google. God be with the days when talking absolute rubbish was an art form mastered by many.

You’d have to ask someone on a date instead of just swiping them

Imagine, not judging someone immediately on their profile picture. Instead you judged them on… their face.

Pub quizzes weren’t suspect to cheats

It’s much harder to get an encyclopedia into a quiz than it is a phone.

Reading maps was a skill

You didn’t have a little device telling you to turn right after 10 metres. You knew you were going to miss that turn by simply misreading that road-map that was handed down through generations.

You watched a gig/event without a camera in the way

Imagine, going to a gig where people are actually watching it without trying to film it. That actually happened.

Meals were a photography-free zone

It’s hard to believe that there was a time when people thought it unnecessary to take photographs of their food. Guess what? Their food still tasted fine too.

Only doctors self-diagnosed

We didn’t equate having the snuffles to having the black plague after typing their symptoms into a search engine.

People listened to their friends opinions

If you were going to a restaurant you’d ask your mates who had been their before what it was like. Their opinions actually mattered. Now, we just look on review sites and go off that.

So there you have it, 9 ways life can be pretty good if you just lift your head from that phone of yours and start living.

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