Ahhh....there it is....the infamous riiiiinnngggging sound.....or in my girlfriend's case, you'd hear..."Reada your phone is ringing"...."Sweetheart I'm calling you"..you get the idea..(her phone talks) ....but whatever sound you hear when someone calls you...it's probably coming from the cell phone. However, in rare instances there might not be any sound or tone when someone calls you, especially if you don't have a cell phone at all or...as is the case for me many times... it's off.
Ok....so this brings me to why I'm writing this web log entry.
I will be honest, I don't like the phone most of the time. I'm sure you have an opinion about it too. The beauty of the cell phone is that one can have some control as how much of life will revolve around it. Being the private kinda guy I am, it works out to be able to let the voicemail take over and I can evaluate each situation when someone calls me. And thats another reason I don't enjoy the phone much.
Whether you notice it or not, each time someone calls you, you are being forced to make a decision as to whether or not you want to answer it and then you must decide what you'll say when the person tells you they want something from you which is usually why they call anyways isn't it? Ok, ok...maybe not all the time...but nevetheless, I prefer to let well enough alone and just talk once in awhile to a family member or friend and if they don't want to talk...thats fine with me cause I know they probably have more exciting things to do than talk on the phone to someone who lives 1000's of miles away from them.
Also, I find it's nice to be able to not allow work interfere with family time when you don't want it to. You can simply turn the phone off. I think I may have liked living in the days before the phone......wait....but then the internet wouldn't have been around and I may still find myself single....
Let me ask you....what do you think of the phone, particularly the cell phone?
3 comments:
It's interesting that you ask what I may think of the cell phone. Let's see, before Septemeber, I had my phone with me wherever, and I do mean wherever I went (yes, even the bathroom sometimes). If someone wanted to get a hold of me and I wasn't at work, all he or she needed to do was call my cell and BiNgO! Life didn't revolve around my cell phone. Oh no! Life was lived through my cell. I'm not talking about just phone calls either! Text messaging!! Yippie!! My cell phone is also my alarm clock. It talks to me... tells me gently when its time to get up or the abrupt, YOU BETTER GET UP RIGHT NOW!
What changed since Septemeber? Well, now during off work hours, if Tim is around, my sound on my cell may be turned off. Thankfully I can still see if someone called, and sneak in a return call later. But, life just seems to have opened up a new scene. I no longer NEED to have my phone with me at all times. I am thankful for the uninterrupted times with my honey
However, I do want to still be there for people if they need something. And I never want someone to feel like they can't call me. So even though life isn't so much lived through my cell anymore, it isn't far from my reach.
Okay here are my thoughts. I always answer for my family. I don't get to see them much and need them once in a while to chat and just maybe let off steam and make things seem better. Yeah I could do this with my honey, but there is nothing like having a friend and in this case a friend is my sister. In fact I don't have any one else that i trust more than one of my sisters.
Phone can be a pain esp. if you have someone call you to get money from you. They may call ten times a day or more.
Any way I don't live through my phone, but it sure is nice to have it to talk to someone when you need to. Even if it is just to say hi and I am okay. Sometimes that helps to make a day better.
very nice comments...I agree
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