I like to think of myself as a relatively easy-to-please person. I don't need the newest, hottest, most expensive products to be content. I'll buy things like phones, MP3 players, and gaming systems when they have become "obsolete" in the minds of many, because although the price is lower, they are still just as functional. I don't like to think of myself as someone who is dependent on gadgets for my daily survival. In the last few days though, I have had a rude awakening.
My grandmother, with whom I reside for a short period of time, needed to go somewhere unfamiliar and wanted to take my cell phone. I was doing nothing on this day, so I had no legitimate need for it. Though, for some odd reason, my stomach dropped at the request, and I got EXTREMELY uneasy about handing it over to her. What if someone called and I wasn't there? What if she lost it and I had to go without a phone? Stupid, irrational, and not worthy of worry kinds of thoughts left my head spinning. The 4 hours that she had my phone left me feeling restless and naked, my empty front pocket making me wonder if I had gotten any texts or calls.
Then, today, I'm sitting outside having a tag sale and I get bored. I traipse inside, grabbing my mp3 player holding down the "on" switch. It comes on to display a fully charged battery and the album art of my Beatles collection....and then it shuts off....
I hold down the "on" switch again for 2, 3, 4.....5....17 seconds....The screen isn't lighting up, nor do I hear the familiar bell-like start up noise. Shit, shit, shit.....
I haven't used it in almost 3 weeks, and at this second I am urgent to hear music, ANY music, coming from my earbuds....but nothing happens. The second my Samsung yp-t10 MP3 player wouldn’t work was the instant I second searching online for the prices of new MP3 players. Pathetic.
The hankering and restlessness that the absence of these two pieces of technology has caused me makes me feel....well....pretty damn dismal. So, I got to thinkin', and I pose this question to all of you; Am I the only one so emotionally and mentally dependent on these, or other, silly technological devices?
I can only hope that I’m not the only one.....
My grandmother, with whom I reside for a short period of time, needed to go somewhere unfamiliar and wanted to take my cell phone. I was doing nothing on this day, so I had no legitimate need for it. Though, for some odd reason, my stomach dropped at the request, and I got EXTREMELY uneasy about handing it over to her. What if someone called and I wasn't there? What if she lost it and I had to go without a phone? Stupid, irrational, and not worthy of worry kinds of thoughts left my head spinning. The 4 hours that she had my phone left me feeling restless and naked, my empty front pocket making me wonder if I had gotten any texts or calls.
Then, today, I'm sitting outside having a tag sale and I get bored. I traipse inside, grabbing my mp3 player holding down the "on" switch. It comes on to display a fully charged battery and the album art of my Beatles collection....and then it shuts off....
I hold down the "on" switch again for 2, 3, 4.....5....17 seconds....The screen isn't lighting up, nor do I hear the familiar bell-like start up noise. Shit, shit, shit.....
I haven't used it in almost 3 weeks, and at this second I am urgent to hear music, ANY music, coming from my earbuds....but nothing happens. The second my Samsung yp-t10 MP3 player wouldn’t work was the instant I second searching online for the prices of new MP3 players. Pathetic.
The hankering and restlessness that the absence of these two pieces of technology has caused me makes me feel....well....pretty damn dismal. So, I got to thinkin', and I pose this question to all of you; Am I the only one so emotionally and mentally dependent on these, or other, silly technological devices?
I can only hope that I’m not the only one.....
