What I Fear

How do you face your fear?

Has it ever been successful?

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Has it ever occurred to you how it feels to be a smartphone?

It may feel nice. You can browse lots of information, record many events, run lots of application. Multitasking? Piece of cake! You might still need to hold the laugh in the face of the old phones. Those polyphonic bastards who thought they were the shit! Now they are just shit. 

Not to mention the social media. Millions of new thing every day, every hour, every second. From your neighborhood, to a corner of room in another country, or even in space. Just staying still, but you are running fast as lightning. 

Your user stays with you every moment. Don't be scared if they leave you behind, because they are scared every time they forget to include you in their bag, pocket, or hand. You travel everyday with them. Bedroom, office, campus, toilet, mountain, beaches, malls, you just mention it.

Until one day, User is desperately trying to do something but unfortunately you are unable to do it. Nothing wrong, you just aren't build to do it. User opened the messaging and social media apps simultaneously and quickly, in hope of finding an answer. Somebody replied. There is a great rush in your processor and RAM when you see the message given by your User's friend. Guess what is it about?

A brand new phone~

Runs faster. Bigger capacity. Better pictures. Greater Battery. New functionalities.

Just what they need.

Ah, the inevitable.

User has the money. User even purchases it by using you. That agony when they type their name, address, and card number. As they switch to their mobile banking. It becomes harder to breathe when they type the amount of money they are about to pay. Then their password before saying okay. And then, the bill you show them, set your fate in stone.

...

All that sweet time together blinds you from the oncoming storm that is finally upon you:

You become obsolete.

You are no longer able to be the answer of their need.

People need to be answered. If one cannot answer, they will ask to another one. It is only natural.

Worse, sometimes it does not even need anybody new. 

Once you fail to be the answer, beware. 

Twice, be very very afraid.

Thrice, hold your tear and say good night.

You are now turned off. Forever.

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I am that phone.
Soon enough, I will be turned off.

I just wish it is not this painful.

That's all.