Time to put your phone on sound mode

Are you one of those people who like to put your phone on silent mode? Or switch off your phone before you go to bed?

One of those who never picks up phone calls the first time someone dials? Don't ever bother to return a miss call?

Well, I've come across many friends / relatives who are like that. Now, the question I want to pose to people guilty of the above is WHY? Why do you want to put your phone on silent mode / not answer your phone calls but yet still carry a mobile phone around? Especially when you go to sleep, and you put your phone on silent mode or even switch it off.

(if you put your phone on silent but yet still answer every call, then ure not in the above category. This post is for people who don't pick up phone calls.)

My whole point of this post is to remind people that there might be emergency calls which they might miss.

Emergencies don't pick office hours to happen. They happen any time, any day. If a person only had one shot at a phone call to save a life and you missed the call cos you wanted an uninterrupted sleep, would you kick yourself in the head when it's all too late?

Emergencies can happen to friends / family, can be fatal eg accidents or emotional eg friend feeling superbly depressed. Generalizing, the later the timing of the phone call, the more ill boding the news of the call usually is.

Granted, you might receive a few drunk diallers, a few wrong numbers that might piss you off in the middle of the night. But you'll never know when that life-changing (for you or the caller or both) phone call is gonna come and I assure you, you don't want to risk missing it.

Of cos during office hours, phones can be on silent mode. In fact, phones can be on silent mode all the time if you're sensitive to your phone's vibrations / keep your phone in sight so you know everytime the phone lights up when a call comes in.

The key message here is not to underestimate the importance of picking up all your phone calls in a TIMELY manner. Make it a point to be sensitive to your phone calls starting today.

Remember, emergencies happen any date, any day, any time. 24/7.

Ps by emergencies, I mean non life threatening ones such as a depressed friend seeking comfort too. I mean, if he/she calls at 4am, got to be depressed to a certain extent already right?!

Pps I feel like a civil defence advertisement I don't know why. Nothing to do with civil defence but I just feel erm... Propaganda-ish? Haha.