Confession Tuesday: the Lost iPhone Edition
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It's been a week, one lost iPhone, one sunburn, one Haystack Rock, and one busy summer since my last confession.
Sorry to have been away. Let's get going. To the confessional--
I confess I was running from waves at dusk after taking photos of starfish with my iPhone when I lost it. I put it in my pocket then went running through the sand like a nut. When I returned to my hotel room I realized it wasn't in my purse.
So back onto the beach. I met a group of people who were beachcombing with a flashlight. Two guys came up with the idea of calling my cellphone and we would all stand watch to see it light up in the sand. Ring ring....nothing. Ring ring...nothing.
At that point, I decided the waves must have come in and made my phone a brick. A wet brick in damp sand next to Haystack Rock in the Pacific Ocean.
But here's the thing... I wasn't sad.
In fact, I actually felt free as if all my worries had been (literally) washed away.
I couldn't check email. No one could reach me. Life became easier.
It's that same feeling I have when we lose power. Oh, I guess I have nothing to do, better read. Or go to bed early.
I want to feel like this every day.
For the first 3 days after losing my iPhone I was researching phones without internet and was almost ready to buy this phone (the iNo phone-- for elderly & children):
I know, they are pretty awesome. They look like calculators.
What sold me was they only have phone, text ability...plus an FM radio AND a flashlight.
I was really wondering if I want to carry my email with me. I am beginning to hate email. It drags me down.
With the iNo phone, I would be everyone's best friend at night with my built-in flashlight. And when we need to dance, I come with FM radio.
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I confess I will probably end up getting another iPhone, but I realize I am not racing down the Apple store to pick one up. Instead, I am enjoying this time being phoneless.
I have a lot to learn on how to live better, how to be in the moment. That is what I feel my iPhone takes from me. It gives me convenience, but takes away my ability to just be.
Amen.
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I couldn't agree with you more. It's so refreshing to connect to yourself for a change rather than the internet.
ReplyDeleteIndia is a great place for power failures.
I have a $10 phone from Virgin Mobile. I use it to call home to check messages on the answering machine. No camera. The only texts I get tell me when my balance is low. I'm almost proud of how not technological it is.
ReplyDeleteI love the look of the iNo phone. I hardly ever use my mobile, I really only have one in case of emergency such as a vehicle breakdown.
ReplyDeletePower failure might be fun for an hour or two but it gets tedious after two days. I found that the joy of getting power back on, just as we were thinking we might have to throw out all the food in the freezer, was enormous.
Even though I work in tech for my day job, I'm a late adopter and still rockin' my clamshell phone. As you mentioned in your other post, I'm on the interwebs too much as it is. Having it in my pocket would not help me but my contract is up and I'm being tempted by the dark side...
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