I have been having a disturbing history with mobiles lately. It was not always so.
In 2003, around 5 years back, when I bought my first mobile (It was a Nokia-3315. I thought it was beau-u-ti-ful!!) my father predicted a swift demise- At worst 1 week, at best 1 month- For that was how long any valuable lasted in my hands. Actually, that was how long ANYTHING lasted in my hands. Pens, watches, table tennis racquets... Even Cricket Bats and Mopeds!! How its end would come about- Whether I would forget it somewhere, drop it from the 3rd floor, fall out of a moving bus or via theft- was to him merely a matter of detail.
It came as a suprprise to him (and i won't lie, to me as well) that it lived to a ripe age. I graduated to a MotoRazr, and then a Moto Ming. Not a scratch came upon any of my mobiles for over 4 years.
This fine and squaky clean record, the only redemption to an unparalleled (and slightly disgraceful) reputation of carelessness, came one fine day when my Ming disappeared into a toilet (I prefer not getting into details). I bought an N-70 which inexplicably got stolen (outside Siddhivinayak Temple.. I think even God willed it to be so!). Now, my latest jet black 6300 has developed a snag that puts it out of action for 2 days.
But wait! This post is not about my struggles with mobiles. Its deals with the broader topic of what HAPPENS TO PEOPLE when they lose mobiles. Its about the psychological, and physiological, phenomena allied to such profound loss. Given that for many people, their mobiles has become an extension to their physiology (Some people have that thing in their ear for so long that I fancy they will need surgery to get it off), lets look at what happens to people when they lose a part of their body...
Around 60-80% of people who have their limbs amputated, undergo a phenomena called THE PHANTOM LIMB. Their nerves continue to transmit signals to the brain which tells it that the the limb is still there. They can FEEL a limb that is not there anymore, sometimes years after the amputation.
An allied phenomenon with people who lose mobiles is (depending on which pocket you keep your mobile) the phantom thigh, or the phantom butt! The patient feels vibrations of 'incoming calls' on his thigh/her butt pocket, and he/she reaches out to take a call from a phone that does not exist. The sensations may continue to occur for days, even weeks and can be unpleasent and, if repeated frequently among friends, socially embarassing.
Thou have been forewarned!
3 comments:
nice stuff for the first post... light and interesting, for both you and the reader, even though this blog is meant primarily for you to capture life as it comes.
However, if critique is wanted (although it isn't and shouldn't be given,especially on a blog), I'll give it all the same.
You tend to rant on too much before approaching the subject, and then rant on post the subject... with very little said ABOUT the subject.
keep blogging, will keep visiting your blog...
wish you all the luck,
gothicwind.
Good stuff... write more. Though the post is dated the topic is not. In fact mobile dependency has gone up dizzyingly high since 2008 is it not?
hehehehehehehehehehe........this one was funny.
The phantom thigh. hehehehehehehehe
yea ......well i have to say there is a funny bone in there somewhere.
oh and btw I have all the phones that I have bought even today including my first phone, with the exception of 1 which has been give to a cousin.
But here is the interesting bit. I have also had a bad history with phones since i bought a MotoMing. I think its something about that phone. Someday I will tell you that story.
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