Be in the moment, not your phone

7am in the morning of a working day. A man walks into a crowded train, leaves his bag on the ground and strolls away. Nobody notices because 8 out of the 10 people in the cabin are face-down, engrossed in their mobile devices scrolling through Facebook posts, watching movies or playing Candy Crush.

The other two are fast asleep with their earphones on - they wouldn't hear the explosion until it's too late. And it already is.

We are becoming a face-down people - looking into our magic screens while walking, running, cycling, driving - blocking the entrances of doorways and lifts. Strolling along busy corridors, disrupting the flow of people who are also immersed in their handsets but somehow mastered the art of walking faster.

Life no longer occurs outside there, but within those tiny pixels which connect us to cyberspace - to people we don't wish to speak to, and places we've never been. Families sit around at the dining table, hardly talking, each one engrossed in their own device, wasting minutes of precious time which could be spent interacting as they did in ancient times.

Don't fall into that trap. Put your phone down, talk to one another, find out what's new, what's not so new, how their day went. There will come a day when all you have is your 4G connection, but until then, immerse yourself in the conversation of life, the beauty (and ugliness) around you which is called Living.

Especially, get to know your children before they decide to move out. And then, you will really need to use your phone. For now, talk to their faces, but brush your teeth first.