This is the first day of two things. My first day of blogging, and my first day without my cellphone in almost a year. Just a couple days ago, my cell decided that it wanted to just go and die on me. This has left me not only devastated, but completely out of the loop. one of my geek friends (we all have one) told me that my LCD (lowest common denominator?) screen was worn out and broken. So of course I went through the whole mourning for my loss thing, and In a few days will probably have moved on. Especially since this just gives me a good excuse to get a new, maybe even better, phone. Hopefully without a Lowest Common Denominator screen.
At this point you're probably thinking, get to the point already! and I'm making a horrible first impression. Well fine.The point of sharing this little tidbit of unnecessary incite into my life with you is that this whole 3 day experience has brought to my attention how attached to my cellphone I really am. Now I realized that it is a huge stereotype for teenagers to be attached to their cellphones. I also realized that I, unfortunately, fit that stereotype. And I'm not the only one. A few of my friends (bless their souls) gave me a huge amount of pity (not needed of course) and told me they couldn't imagine a day without their phones.
Of course one or two of my friends also said I was crazy and I shouldn't be so attached to a $100 piece of metal and plastic. This brings me to the whole population of teens with cellphones who aren't attached at all, and their phone could go through the wash and they would brush it off. I think Americans overlook these teens.
What those friends failed to realize is that; that $100 piece of metal and plastic is (well was) my out of school connection to people. Without my phone, how am I supposed to know what the homework is? Or how to do that crazy math assignment my teacher assigned today?
I guess I will never know how I'm supposed to complete a square. And my LA assignment will probably be late. But the lesson I have (hopefully) learned through the tragic death of my cellphone is that I am way to attached and I need to get a social life already!
