Happy Birthday, Cher, from me and the LAPD
One of my best good buddies, Cher, just recently partied pretty hard and had a run-in with the police. In all good fun, Cher came out unscathed and more importantly, with her phone intact.
Cellphones are somewhat crucial to my life. It's the best way to reach me. I get email on it. I can check my oodles of social media on it. Plus, I'm a producer, so I'm effing permanently connected to the cancer box siamese-twin-freak-of-nature style. (oops, I mean conjoined)
But alas, when things get hectic in my life, I get a little scatterbrained. And one day, I did the unthinkable and lost my phone.
Thanks to Apple's Find My Friends app, it was only a matter of a couple iPad taps to see that my phone had gotten locked up in my office. My office that had just been fumigated for unusually large cockroaches and other insect menace. I considered borrowing a gas mask, but figured I'll just wait the weekend to get my phone back. Brave the world of the phoneless.
After emailing the people who are trying so urgently to reach me to let them know I lost my phone, I took a breathe and dove into phone freedom. After overcoming some work-related anxieties, it was nice. I wasn't constantly tied to my social media in public, relied on my memory to get around town without GPS, I wasn't worried a work call could come in, and most importantly I was able to just enjoy the company of those around me. Granted, I did really miss my camera phone when I spotted two skunks fighting in the street, but seeing will not be believing in this instance. All in all, it was the most relaxed I had been since I started working.
And then finally come Monday, I expect to see a tsunami of missed calls and a text messages. Perhaps a few Instagram alerts, but no- I missed 1 call from my mom, no voicemail and my wakey wakey alarm went off. Son of a bitch.
Cellphones are so empowering by giving us mobility, but I've learned that every now and then it's nice to turn off the phone to focus on the world that you can touch, feel and smell.
