...so I have just had this minor panic as I've realised through chatting to my friends, that before I go travelling I am going to have to give up on one of my nearest and dearest....
my iphone.
It has served me well for over 18 months kept me entertained in airports, on trains home from work, stopped me looking like a weirdo whilst sitting alone places waiting for friends.(yeah yeah I know, it'd take a lot more than that I can hear you say) To be completely honest I am more than slightly addicted to it, its cheeky little apps, its sexy touch screen and importantly the access it gives me to social networking sites and the internet. I thought it was a healthy relationship a nice give and take, it gives me entertainment I take it places. Then there's the goodbye to the laptop as well, don't even get me started....and here was me thinking leaving all my shoes behind was going to be the real tragedy.
This was all after watching the movie 'Up in the Air' tonight, directed by Jason Reitman, which has this interesting quote about carrying everything you own, all your possessions and all your relationships in a backpack and how heavy this all gets etc. etc....it does though make one think about how attached we get to these materialistic possessions, how important these things become to us.
I would like to project this image that I am all zen about shedding a majority of what I own and that I'm completely at ease with it, bandying about words like cathartic and cleansing to others.
Honestly though, when I'm travelling and I look into my empty hand where once my iphone held pride of place (for an admittedly addictive amount of time)looking all pretty and lit up telling me that my profile had been 'liked' or there was an @ reply to something I've said on twitter there will be no zen had.
....I could always get a picture of an iphone tattooed on to the palm of my hand, or is that going to far? :)
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