Every day I see people on their phones. Sitting, tapping, scrolling. I don't think they know it, but they are getting sucked in. They are missing a life that they could easily take back. A life of the arts, a life of enjoyment and satisfaction.

Not just a quick little jolt of pleasure from beating a level on your phone, or seeing a short, but real long-term pleasure that leaves you satisfied.

This type of pleasure comes in many forms. Finishing a book is one example. Either by reading or writing, when you finish a story and it's a good story, you are filled and swallowed up with the power and the meaning of the story.

That feeling when you step away from a good book cannot be replaced with phones.

Phones and technology are designed to be addicting. Everything comes at a cost, and your enjoyment in these frivolities is literally making money off of you.

Your cost is your time.

With the time you spend on your phone doing meaningless things, you could change the world.

So many people have a brain, but they just don't use it. They squander it on the small things.

The fix to this is so incredibly easy.

Stop it!

That's it. Pick up a good book. Force yourself to read it instead of scrolling. If you don't have "time," then listen to it as an audiobook. I promise from the depth of my heart that it is a better use of your time.

So that's all I have to say: spend your time wisely because you only have so much of it.

If you're forty, chances are half of your life is already gone. If you're ten, you've spent 1/8 of your life. You don't have much time.

How you spend it is up to you: use it wisely.