What is the worst
thing one can break ?
One may argue that
breaking someone’s heart is the worst thing one can do .
I disagree .
I say breaking
gadgets is the worst thing one can do . I am one of the least materialistic
girl among my peers , and I still say that breaking gadgets is the worst thing
one can do .
And this , I speak
from the following experiences (experiments ?)
-Having broken
someone’s heart
-Having my heart
broken by someone
-Having my phone
broken by someone
-Having broken
someone’s phone
Experience 1 was not
a traumatic one at all . You see , WHILE I was busy breaking someone’s heart ,
I never got a feeling of one doing something wrong .
It was only AFTER
that the feeling of guilt etc overcame me.
Having my heart
broken , was an altogether different experience . I was COMPLETELY convinced
that I was the most depressed life form on earth at that instance of time . It
took much realization to implement Buddha’s principle in my life . If someone
gives me something , it doesn’t necessarily mean I receive it . My life and my
heart are entities purely in my control . If I dont want to take crap , I can
condition myself not to get affected by it .
This new realization
helped me get past the trauma of experience 1 . If I did something that was
considered as “heartbreak” by another person , it did NOT mean that I was
responsible for their conscious decision to stay unhappy !
Having my phone
broken by someone was the real pain (For a fact , people who know me would know that “someone” actually refers to
me :P )
A broken heart I can
repair by myself – but a broken phone ? Dear god , the pain of having to cross
seven traffic jams in Bangalore (tougher than crossing the seven seas! ) and
trace an undetectable service centre , just to know that the cost of repair exceeds
the cost of buying a new phone . Once, I just dumped the phone in the
service station dustbin !It seemed a less painful option than getting the thing
home and breaking my head over how to dispose it !
Experience 4 – THE worst experience . Take
experiences 1 and 3 – club the pain associated with both of them together
, and you get the cocktail of experience 4 !
All
the domestic troubles of figuring out how to repair what you have broken , plus
the guilt of having broken it . (Unlike hearts , when you break a phone you are
solely and fully responsible for it L )
In the present age ,
people are highly dependent on their gadgets to get through the day to day
activities .A phone which does everything from waking one up in the morning ,
storing her passwords , enabling her to talk to dear ones ,and remind her of
tasks to be done throughout the day – imagine not having it all of a sudden . I
feel as lost as a manager whose personal assistant left the job – I have NO
clue what groceries I need to buy , or whose birthday I am forgetting !
Sadly
, for me – the irony of my life remains that I am an electronics engineer with
the most nightmarish experiences with electronic gadgets . Even ironically , I
work to enable the very same phones that I regularly keep destroying L (Of
course , I ensure that my company gets more business !)
My best record has
been wrecking my smartphone , a borrowed
phone from my room mate, and a brand new laptop of the same room mate - all in
less than 10 days !!
My dad once asked me
“Are we there for the benefit of the phone , or is the phone there for our
benefit ?”
After much soul
searching , I hereby conclude – The phone is like my employee . I need to
ensure that my employee is well maintained , or my company cannot deliver !
-Deepika
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