Remember my obsessive personality. Well me and my iPhone4 have quite the serious relationship going on. I can’t believe it took me years to succumb to the obsesion. I was already in a daily commitment with my apple mac and well the iPhone has doubled the intensity of my apple obsession.
Dear iPhone4,
To say you are a phone is a gross understatement. You are my lifeline. You are so thoughtful the way you take photos and videos and instantly send them to my Mum who is a thousand kilometres away. You create my shopping lists, by allowing me to scan finished products from the pantry. You are my guide, offering me maps when I am lost. You are my voice, updating my Facebook status and sending out my tweet. Sometimes you connect me to people. But it’s time we had a talk.
I am grateful for the uncountable ways you, as my constant companion, have changed my life, but it’s time for a break. It’s not over but I need some space. We need some time apart. It’s not you my dear iPhone. It’s me.
Why? What could you, in all your perfectness, have done wrong? You have begun to come between me and my life. The “real” life. Instead of treasuring the moment, I am constantly trying to “capture” it. As if having the hard evidence recorded by you of a picture or video means it actually happened. I am sorry but, that’s what memories are for.
You tempt me with your constant flickering light, informing of the latest Facebook update. I am weak. I give in and find myself doubling the time I used to spend online. You have provided me with a too convienient late night fix of Twitter, but it is leaving me exhausted and tired and unable to face people “in real life” as I have now taken the form of a zombie.
Sometimes you are as not as “smart” as you think. You made me wake up an hour earlier after tricking me by changing time to daylight saving time. You, in all your glory, can not move my time, or give me more and even worse how dare you try and take it away. But that is exactly what is happening.
Please do not think there is someone else. I know its bad timing with iPhone 4S being released, but I am not leaving you for a newer model. This is about US. Me and i.
I am too dependent on you and that is not a good thing. I need to be with my “real” family and friends, instead of glaring into your bright light. I am grateful for all that you have brought to our relationship. What we had was great. But it’s time for some change. I will learn to “live” without you. It will be hard, but I can do it.
I hope we will still be friends. Remain amicable? I will still talk to you and call you and ask for your advice but you will not be my lifeline. You need to spend more time in the car or on the desk and not right by my side. You are not and will not be the center of my life. For in the big scheme of the world, you are after all, just a phone.
Love you,
Larissa xoxo
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Hi Larissa…I think your iPhone poem might just be something that I thought up in my head a few times. Even writing this, my phone is waiting patiently at my side…for some attention. It does have to compete with my new iMac though
I’m not huge on ‘consuming’ or lots of techy gadgets but ‘Apples’ are different. An apple a day and all that….
Oh why didnt I think of the apple a day quote! I am a total mac convert!
Ooh I totally relate to you, although I’m having a day off computers my iPhone is my connection to the online world and I’m on it now! Only while I’m sitting here having cuddles with my girls!
IPhone, I’ve heard of these…they are really magical and make life so much easier don’t they? Okay I’m in, I want one too!!!!
They are fantastic, but be warned VERY addictive!
I hear you. My iphone isn’t just a phone and I need to learn to disconnect from it for a while. My really bad habit is browsing twitter when I go to bed, when I used to use that time to read.
Oh I hear you on the late night in bed twitter habit. The hours just fly by and then I am tired the next day!
hehehe I hear you all to loud and clear I woud be totally lost without mine which is not a good thing
Oh and just for the record I totally read this post this morning on my iphone… haha
xxx
I am lost too! But I am trying to find a little more time without it!
What a great post. I dn’t have a iPhone, but I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 – so not that different. After just a couple of days, I removed FB and Twitter etc. I’ve taken away most of the social apps so that I’m not forever attached to it.
(If only I could un attach myself from my computer).
You’re talking for all of us, writing for all of us I mean! I’ve got an iPhone 3G and it’s attached me me like a limpet. I must break its spell!!
Such a great letter! It covers what I feel too, trying to capture instead of live moments. Tough call sometimes. Don’t exercise the memory muscle enough with the phone. Maybe love-hate relationship is an apt description. I’ve made a conscious effort to put it down more on the weekends now and have a break from blogging, FB, twitter but I am still hooked on Instagram and Pinterest. And to think I resisted having a mobile phone years ago when hubby insisted I get one!