It’s true. I have a voip app which is for business. pretty muchh no one calls me i dont call anyone. my phone is silent.i turn off notifications. i check it when i want to. last call i made was to the pharmacy a month ago. i just dont need it and I dont need other people calling me even less.

Another point that possibly speaks to the OP wrt his elder fathers wise words.

During covid there was a lot of stuff on tv in place of regular programming. not that i watch much TV (insert the onion link) but i saw these people on acreen and i thought ‘who are they?’ and the I realised that I didnt even care who they were. And that it didnt matter. I had officially reached that point in life where I can look back at my father asking me the same question about someone one (probaly the latest celeb or whatever) on TV 30 years ago and me being confused as to why he didnt know or didnt seem to care. Now I understand.

> “Why would I want to allow other people to contact me whenever they want?”

My phone is always on silent, except for my family's numbers. If I get a call from someone else, I'll see it at some point and call back if I think it's necessary