I love my cell phone and I hate it too. When I go for a run or to the grocery store, I feel obliged to bring the phone with me. I'm rarely without it and that again is good and bad. It's good to have a phone if you fall and sprain your ankle on a trail, but how can you really enjoy the beauty of nature and get the most of a workout if you are texting or responding to phone calls? It's convenient to have the phone to call home to check "do I need to buy bread?" But then again, it seems so rude to be talking on the phone in a public place instead of interacting with the people around you. It's so easy to miss what's going on when you are preoccupied with a phone.
Often the cell phone feels like a leash -- one that I often want to be rid of. I think this my "introvert thing" coming out again. Sometimes I just want to be ALONE and when I'm constantly in reach with a cell phone how can I be? I can ignore the calls, but that just makes my family and friends call more because they were worried when I didn't respond. Yes, I think I media is too often intrusive.
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