No Cellphone please II

  My new experiment has provided me a platform to understand where I am(which I intended) and where people are(an added bonus). Numerous opinions have reached me, baseless arguments have taken place. Some are in general agreement that I am against the usage of cell phones,which I am not and can never be, provided with its enormous use in day to day life. I am unable to recall me professing against cell phone usage ergo you can understand my disbelief at this propaganda. English is a simple language yet few people are unable to differentiate between "reducing" and "stopping". Few presumed this to be just another fad, few termed it to be an act of an attention seeker(which I am .... or Am I??) and few have gone on to label me insanely crazy and my actions silly. Interestingly enough, no one involved has ever asked me the reason behind this, apparently sinful act!! To all those people I have only one thing to say, Just because you don't understand something, that doesn't mean its meaningless!!

        As the week continued, new problems have arisen, situations without a solution in the absence of a cell phone. Few of which I have made a point to be mentioned here :

--> Unable to participate in Random planning. However, I thought I said goodbye to those for a month when I wanted to bring a structure and organized routine!!

--> Meetups need to be planned more carefully. Unlike before, you need to specify the exact time and place of the meetup(keeping few buffer minutes apart, which I have learned in the past few weeks), and must be sure to mention a specific spot where u would be in that place ensuring u won't get lost in crowded places (like Malls, Cinema halls, Food Court??).

   Co-ordination about a function/party & Emergencies are few things I am yet to fully experiment with and will provide an entry for them in my next post with details. So far, I have found the need to be more punctual and put more trust in people then I used to before. Hoping they would honor their side of the arrangement is essential when without a cellphone!! Thanks for your support till now and kindly ask you to bear with this for few more days. In this quest driven by curiosity, I hope to uncover more mysteries......

No Cellphone please

I woke up late to office wondering why the alarm didn't go off... then I realized I wasn't using the phone any longer. Woke up and got ready in a hurry and went to the bus stop but couldn't text anyone if the bus had already gone or ask them to stop the bus since there was no cellphone. I reached office and did not find anyone to go for cofy, so I wanted to find out where ppl are, then realized I could not do that either because........ so I waited. The whole day my hand was reaching out for my left pocket to check for new messages, any calls that I have missed or to simply check time but it was disappointed every time!! So far, Cell phone renunciation has caused more problems than it solved. I began to wonder if the decision was correct but decided to go through it for another week. At the end of the day - there were no personal loans to be taken, no credit cards to be issued, no flat sale messages to distract you from working.....

  The next day I woke up well before time(with almost 2 hours to spare before the bus arrived), afraid to sleep again risking the shuttle. So I had ample time to finish my morning activities, even shuffle through the paper, eat breakfast(which I usually miss as a routine) and was well early to the bus stop. And at office the mystery continued of absent people yet I had no choice but to wait :) By the end of the week, I was still waking up far too early than I needed to but I was able to sleep early at nights(which I have been unable to achieve for the past 7 years!!). Also, I seem to have developed some patience. The pleasures are yet to be found to the fullest and the pains are yet to be explored in the widest sense but the journey sure is exciting.