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Phrase: Lose track of time
There’s a war happening online.
It’s a battle for our time.
All websites strive to attract us and make us lose track of time so that we will stay there on their site for as long as possible.
One minute you’re concentrating on preparing a document for a meeting, then suddenly, you realize you’ve spent the last half hour watching videos of American road rage on YouTube.
How the heck did that happen?
Well, buddy, you went down the rabbit hole; that’s how it happened.
You see, when you lose track of time, you become so engrossed in something that you forget the time and ignore other more important things which you have to do.
It’s the bane of our modern society.
More and more great things are out there, vying for our attention every day.
It’s getting to be so much that FOMA, not the one related to DoCoMo, but the Fear of Missing Out, has become a type of anxiety common in Western societies.
Video games are one of the foremost perpetrators.
People forget to sleep, eat or even pick up their kids after school because they are so engrossed in a video game that they lose track of time.
I have no evidence, but I’m sure some Japanese commuters must have missed their train stop because they were on their smartphones.
I’m just like everyone else.
I often lose track of time.
That’s why I have an alarm for everything.
I mostly use silent vibrating alarms on my smartwatch to remind me of everything from a lesson coming up to it being time for a glass of water.
Yeah, I know, but at least knowing that I’ll lose track of time, I’ve prepared for it.
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