My Dying Phone

I have 4 personal email accounts - a primary one I share with Craigley that gets the most traffic, a secondary one for my tutoring, a secret one for this blog and an ancient one for my old friends. I also have a School Council email account and depending on what event I am coordinating, an associated email account for each of those events.

I manage most of them on my phone along with Texting and WhatsApping! Never realized how busy I had become with so many communication commitments till my phone started dying on me!

At first, I blamed it on the cold weather. But then, it got warmer and my phone got worse. It put me in panic mode. Obvious solution is to get a new phone; however, with the Fun Fair approaching quickly and given my comfort level with my phone, I decided to rough it out.

And it has been rough. (And this is where ASid would most likely interject in a sarcastic tone and say "#FirstWorldProblems!"). Doesn't matter his perspective, this was becoming a problem for me.

My reliability and reputation were at stake. I always respond to my phone calls and get back to my email messages within minutes! Now, I don't even know who called and who needs my help?!

But in every crazy situation I go through in my life, I try to find something positive. And in this case, my dying phone has reminded me and reinforced my own belief about life in general - that literally nothing is the end of the world!

So, when the phone dies. I put it aside and take a break!

Yes, life is short; however, I do not need to rush through it. It is OK to take a leisurely walk through it and smell the proverbial roses. And there is enough of a track record set that reliability and reputation should not be lost with a delay of few minutes in responding to phone calls and email messages!