Reset


Letting go is never easy


Five wonderful years. Five years of not just beautiful memories, but also those that are not so and those in between which were needed for me to be who I am now.


For the past 5 years, I’ve been using the same mobile phone - a silver iPhone 6. I’m not the type who wants the latest gadget. For as long as it serves its purpose, I don’t find the need to get a new even if it’s old. But unfortunately I had to say goodbye to that phone.


Admittedly, I’m a clumsy person. I fall down a lot when I was a lot younger and until now I get bruises here and there without me noticing. I drop things quite often, including my phone.


My phone had cracks every now and then, I actually had to replace its LCD 2 years ago when I accidentally dropped my phone as soon as I woke up. I even got myself wounded. This time though it was my nephew who dropped the phone and inadvertently broke the LCD leaving a big black zone.


I have the option of changing the LCD once more but this time I chose to get a new phone instead. An iPhone 6 is probably obsolete now. It would be a bit difficult to get a new LCD. And I guess my unit has served me enough. My phone’s full battery can no longer last like how it was the first time I got it. It gets hot easily too. Some apps could not be downloaded and used properly because of compatibility issues.


Letting go is never easy especially when you’ve had it for years and has been an essential part of your life. At first I wanted to just change the LCD not wanting to let go of those on my phone. But I couldn’t find an LCD. When I got my supposedly temporary phone, I tried hard to scan my old phone but the 3/4 of the screen was already black. Apple has this feature where you just need to scan the old phone and the data stored would be transferred. That would have made my life easy but unfortunately I can’t scan my old phone - needless to say, I’m back to square one. All those photos and ebooks that were not backed up by my iPad are now gone.


I felt lost.


I had to download all those ebooks once more. There were days when I thought I had a certain ebook or a certain photo needed for my practice, I would look for it on my new phone or my iPad only to be disappointed because I don’t have it anymore. This went on for a few weeks, feeling lost and wanting to recover what was on my old phone.


But now I’ve grown accustomed to the new phone. I have new ebooks, new photos, new contacts, new games, new and better apps - I’ve let go of my old phone. It was quite sad but it was a reset I unknowingly needed.


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