It is all right to deactivate your social media accounts without alerting your friends.

It is all right to change your cell phone number without telling anyone.

It is all right not to answer your phone, or not reply to text messages and e-mail messages.

All of those are affirmations that, despite technology, you are not a slave to it. You are free to make choices, and everything relies on you rather than the other way around.

Gone are the days when a person would jump whenever their telephone rang.