What is the one thing we apparently can’t live without? Is not our taste in expensive clothing, is not being able to dine in fancy restaurants, and is dame sure not our jobs… ok so maybe we can’t live without a job but we sure would love to. The one thing we simply can’t live without now a days is our cell phones.
Modern society as we now have come to know it; is an invisible spider-web constructed by an infinite number of satellites crunching numbers all day long. And we are trap in this web while our carriers eat way at us every month like a predatory back-widow but we love every minute of it… unless you don’t have an unlimited plan then you hate every minute you have gone over. But the overages are not a deterrent as we are in love with our phones.
Marriage use to be the old ball and chain but now it is our cell phones. Everyone is just a number away at any given time of the day… The days of seclusions have been over for more than two and a half decades that’s longer than most of you reading this have been alive. The option to detach is no longer there, or better yet we don’t allow ourselves that option because a day without our phones seems like a preposterous proposition. Like most marriages that come to an abrupt end so does the life span of our cell phones every two to four years we trade up or marry something which in our minds seems better; be it more sexy or for more intelligent features we take the leap. Not to generalize marriages but by the end of the cycle we are bitter with our decision and want to take the leap again.
The invisible spider-web seems to encompass everything life oriented as most people are addicted to their cell phones. Some examples of our addictions include the fact that we spend more money on accessories than the price of our phones. It began with a simple car charger, then a spare battery, then a screen protector, then a stereo Bluetooth adapter, now you are up to a different case for each day of the week. We have more than 30 apps install that we don’t use or simply don’t need; I don’t need an app to help me find my car every morning, or calculated a tip at a restaurant. We have an alarm setup to tell us when to do everything in our day. We cut back on things we need in order to afford a 100 plus dollars phone bill. We read about our phone on our phone. If we drop it on the floor we feel like we drop a child. When we feel our pockets and don’t feel our phones our hearts skip a beat in terror at the thought that we just lose it. An the last place on the planet where you were save and totally alone is no longer available because yes you use your phone in the toilet as well.
For something that is not physical the invisible spider-web has the strongest grip, brutal if you will. We are the architects of our lives and we have traveled into popular cultural bliss without thinking twice. And for those of you who have not gotten there yet I’m sure the GPS on your phone will lend you a hand.
Lenny
Aug 03, 2010 @ 15:15:39
That is so true, without my phone I feel utterly lost.
maire
Aug 07, 2010 @ 20:21:18
You are totally wright; without a phone we feel empty, like we have left a part of us. We dowload so may apps in our phone that its not even funny, once a new phone comes out that looks better than the one we got, we try all means possible to get it.
Remmy
Aug 10, 2010 @ 22:40:06
While an i-phone(i-junk as I like to call them) is fine for those of you Apple fans. I prefer the Droid X simply because the Android OS is just so much better I actually upgraded from the i-junk to the Droid X and is just a much better experience since I have tried both I think I will stick with the Droid X. Also tried the HTC Aria but the Droid X feels better and is bigger.