Anyone who knows me knows that my ability with technology is
limited at best. Of course I can manage the basics like any of my fellow gen
Y-ers who have been raised in this MTV and personal computer era. And having a
bit of the social anxiety, I had an added interest to become versed in anything
that allowed me to interact with people without REALLY interacting with them.
But as a whole I’m not very good with technology, I don’t
even know how to do a power point presentation (shameful I know). But it has
occurred to me lately that for something I am not terribly good with, I am
painfully dependent on it.
Nothing drove this home more then my phone going kaput on
me. I went to text someone
yesterday and the phone shut off by itself. I of course went into a kind of
panic. After trying all sorts of things to get it going I ordered a replacement
battery (fingers crossed that it will fixed the problem).
So here I am cell phone-less while I wait for the
replacement battery to come, and that has really proved to me how completely
reliant I am on the thing. Not only do I use it to keep in contact with people,
or to text when I am bored, but I realized now that I don’t even own a watch at
this point! I had a meeting today, and I realized how desperately I wanted to
know the time during it… I did not NEED to know it, mind you, just really
really wanted to.
So perhaps this 48-hour span of being phone-less is a good
thing. Maybe it will be some sort of enlightening experience that will teach me
something deep about myself.
But if I am really honest with myself I know just hope that
the new battery will fix the bloody thing.
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