My Phone

Have you ever contemplated the possibility that your lovely phone can just drop dead one day -- without warnings, negotiations or even a good-bye???  If not, it's about time for you to play this scenario out in your head and think about whether or not you have a strategy to deal with the painful reality -- calmly and gracefully!

This is what happened to me today.  About 15 minutes after I got home from work, around 6:57pm, my lovely sleek-looking pure black iPhone 6s decided to die on me -- just like that!!  I tried to call my IT guy, and of course, his cell phone number was in my dead phone -- doesn't it sound familiar? 

So, I emailed my assistant and had her contact the IT guy.  Then I decided to forget about the whole thing and go to the health club.  In the health club, I thought about it over and over again -- can we really live a life without our phone or computers?  If so, how?  When the entire digital world shuts down, can we just let go easily like nothing even happened?  Can we really???  Under what condition(s) can we live our lives without vulnerability?  Avoiding attachments may be an option... but how can we not be attached to something that is so near and dear to our hearts?  The truth is: it looks COOL and beautiful even when it's dead -- how can we NOT be attached to it????

This goes back to my weekend Zen practice -- we really need to train ourselves to live without all the gadgets, devices and distractions...