The Symbolism Of A Cell Phone

By Linda Friday, December 05, 2008

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I am sitting here on my break at work as I type this, listening to the chirping of my cell phone's battery dying in my coat pocket nearby and wishing I lived inside that phone. Like me, it is broken. It still makes and receives calls, but the battery dies very quickly, and it no longer has a working screen. It is a pretty little pink phone that lives in my purse during the day and on the table at night, and it's badly in need to be tossed out and replaced by a newer model. How symbolic! I never knew that cell phones took on the personalities of their owners! In this corner at the computer sits a tiny person whose battery is dying and who no longer has a display screen...just a blank white light and the VERY occasional sound of a ring...and never from anyone who matters.

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Cmefly

12/ 5/08 3:25pm

My phone scares me a lot lately. I never want to be my phone. I just want it to disappear along with all the pain in my life and the people associated with that pain.

Eric

12/ 6/08 4:46am

Hey Nutter,

I can relate and also at times feel the same way as you do about your cell phone except mine vibrates for incoming calls from unimportant people and chirps as the battery silently dies.

But I would add that every evening I place that dang phone on the charger and it brings new life and hope every morning that today is going to be a better day. Maybe with a new charge, someone important just may call.

My cell is also like me in that it is old ( I don't even have a sims card), but somehow continues to work after getting recharged each night. When I wake every morning I thank god for allowing me one more day on earth to be with friends and family.

See...Four years ago I was diagnosed with malignant invasive melinomia. I at that time had to come to terms with the idea that my days were numbered and to enjoy each day as if it were my last. God for some odd ball reason allowed the surgeon to remove all of the cancer and allows me to this day to be cancer free (god takes care of fools and idiots and I fit both categories).

So my suggestion to all that read this...be thankful for what you have instead of feeling like crap for what you don't have. Enjoy each day to its fullest!

and Linda....you have already shown us that you are NOT like your cell phone and are very important to us. You know...us crazy people have to stick together to pull each other up by their boot straps when needed.

Tabby

12/ 6/08 10:34am

One day Eric, that "battery" that you re-charge each day will give up it's ability to continue holding a charge.

Then what will you do?

I'm glad you survived your cancer. My sister-in-law didn't survive her melanoma, she went quickly thanks be.

God pulled me through my car wreck and has healed me to a greater extent and still is to this day and I've come to realize those things that are most important compared to what I used to think were. Yet, unexplainably I do feel my time here is very short and my battery is beeping and giving up it's charge.

It hurts, my friend and though I want to live my life at it's fullest - and I do - oh, I so do - I just can't seem to get another set of bars to going, just 1. Even, on meds.

So, I have been contemplating and thinking and weirdly reviewing my life up till now (not necessarily my own choosing, kinda naturally) and I just don't see anything beyond this month. I just got to get through this month.

Eric

12/ 8/08 5:10am

Head for eBay and buy a new one

whyme

12/ 7/08 12:27am

I as well as others can certainly understand that feeling, but like your phone it has to be plugged back in to be charged. People are the same way, we all need to find that one outlet to recharge. It could be variuos things, like an activity, loved ones , fiends,etc. My outlet is my children, they are ny chord and charger. Also this site is a great outlet for me as well as others. Strength comes in numbers, and eric is right, us crazy people need each other. Dealing with bp isn't easy for me, or for that matter no one. Sometimes its really hard and we have to recharge, If not our power goes off. But know you are not alone and can get thru the troublesem times, you just have to have faith in you. My life sucks alot, but when I feel bad(alot more lately). I get on this site and express my problems and fears. Fortunately we have people like eric and tabby and others like them to help us. Also sometimes we need intervention like the hospital. I was there this week, and it did help somewhat. But I still feel like crap but I feel better when I get it off my chest, at least for a short time. We aren't really taught as kids how to deal with this, but have to figure it out when we are adults. We just have to think of something possitive,even though that can be really tough. Just remember to breath..

Ex Fato Fides

1/ 6/09 3:22am

My friends all know that my cell phone will be on and it will be off. I will pay my bill when I am workin a job and then it will be off until I am working another. In it is a contact book of so many relations and so many people who either love me or find me to be a wonderful person to be around...but alas it has been off for the last two months or so. I carry it around with me always with he hope that I will be able to summon the creativty and resources to rise up again in this long process of re-inventing myself after I crash and burn. Its a Razor that I bought when I had money in my pocket and I was detemined to finally become this brandnewsecondhand person. It its screen is broken too. But on the brighter side, it has forced me to talk to others who are around me, my roomates and apprecate those who support me because I will look to them again to reconnect, recharge, from cell to cellular.

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