without Hand Phone

On Monday the afternoon, I accidently left my purse behind in central library, and then the purse was forever gone with my lovely Nokia 5000 inside, and all the important cards.

Then the next several days were wasted on the procedure to report the loss and reapply for those disgusting cards. But what troubled me most was that with my phone gone, things became even more difficult. The security officer couldn’t contact me, nor could the police. I had to lend one mobile phone to call Ms Lim, the MOE officer in charge of us. To make the things worse, I initially wrote all those numbers like password, passport number, and FIN number in my mobile number, so then I couldn’t remember them anymore. When I went to report the loss, it made me really embarrassed that I couldn’t told officers what’s the card number. Moreover, I couldn’t summon my research group mates. It was such a mass when we intended to hold meetings. The worst thing was that I lost all the phone numbers, my friends, my relatives, my seniors, my befrienders…, which really made me want to tear the one who picked up my purse into pieces.

Tired and hungry, I came back to dorm and buried myself in the bed. Then I really wanted to call mom, just wanted to listen to her voice, which would no doubt comfort me quite soon, but I couldn’t. Without the phone, it seemed that the whole world was gone away, left me alone on some deserted islet, with no sound, no wind, no light, no creature but me.

Then a question came out in my mind. Was it really a sorrowful tragedy? Why did I become so frustrated just because it would become a little bit inconvenient to contact with others? Anyway I still can contact with the outside world. That is the problem. I found myself rely on mobile phone too much. It is true that with the invention of mobile phone our world is becoming smaller and smaller, and the contact becomes more and more convenient. But on the other side, the actual distance between people is further and further. People are used to contacting others by virtual tools, so they ignore the real world. Moreover, the world is cluttered with enormous information, so do our minds. It is to such a extend that we ignore the inner peace, ignore the importance to think by ourselves in a more calm and profound way.

I felt better after I realized it. Maybe we should sometimes cut off the noise from outside world and try something in tranquility.