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The Opportunity Cost of Scrolling: What You're Actually Giving Up

Sanaa Pradhan
25ECOA21
Department of Economics
Kristu Jayanti (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru

Of all the currencies in our lives, time is the most valuable and non-refundable. Each day, we have the same twenty-four hours. How we decide to spend them shapes the direction of our lives. Yet, many of us unknowingly make a bad investment by spending too much time just scrolling. This habit comes with a significant opportunity cost; it silently takes away our potential, paid for with moments we can never get back. When we give in to the digital scroll, we are not just wasting time; we are losing it. We trade the chance for deep, focused work for scattered attention. We give up real-world connections for staged online performances, and we replace the fertile ground of boredom, where creativity and self-reflection thrive, with an endless stream of packaged content. The book stays unread, the skill remains unlearned, and the meaningful conversation doesn't happen, all pushed aside by the lure of the infinite feed. The real cost goes beyond missed activities; it weakens our ability to engage with them. Our brains, wired for constant newness, become impatient with the slow, rewarding journey of mastering a complex task or simply being present in a quiet moment. Realising this is the first step to reclaiming our most valuable resource. It urges us to be intentional—before we unlock our screens, we should ask what precious alternative we are about to lose. By choosing purpose over passivity, we invest our limited time not in watching the lives of others but in actively building our own.

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