Cell Phone Self

312-555-0001 If I erase you from my cell phone, I’ve erased you from my life too.

Many times when people get mad at a loveone they erase their number, this allows them to not have to see the person's name and thus be reminded of them. The emotional attachment one has for this person is disconnected by the deleting of one’s number. It’s a electronic, physical, and sentimental goodbye.

773-555-0002 If I delete your last message than I’ve forgotten what you’ve said completely.

Your texts say a lot about how people feel about you. Like if they thought about you that day, were they mad at you, glad to hear from you, love you, or near the brink of breaking up with you. If we eternalize the phone its being is just as poignant in our mental life as we are ourselves. The phone is your internal self. Deleted message= deleted mental message “emotion, feeling, thought” =delete, forgotten thought mental msg.

773-555-0003 Anyone that means anything to me is in my phone.

Is it true to say we talk? Yes, we associate. But I’ve never even taken the time to save your name and number. Every time you call I ask, “Who is this?”, if you meant anything to me I should surely know by now or have saved your number by now. Or can it be safe to say you’re a new person in my life and I don’t want to waste my time putting your number in my phone's memory (my memory)too soon, because you might not be here that long? My SIM, my phone’s memory is the true testament to if you are worth that space, that carpal effort.

312-555-0004 I scroll, I scroll. Where I had no intent to go (call).

My phone has a better memory than me. It can remember dates, facts, work hours, call times, and so forth. The phone is used as a gratifying device. I have more numbers in my phone than you. In essence that means more people like me, more people care about me, or know me than you. But so many of these people I have no sentimental value for. Many of which I couldn’t begin to tell you who were. Self validation comes to those that glance at their phonebook in just scroll and calculate the possible phones calls(acknowledgements) they could receive.

312-555-0005 Old messages are like old love letters dipped in sulfuric and computerized perfume.

Some days we just browse thourgh our phone looking for the old electric sweet nothings our gf or bf said to us. Our phone comforts us it alludes back to good and bad times. When no one has anything to say, we refer to what they use to say. Or what they use to feel for us. The message lock on our phone is the safe or treasure chest of jewels that once and still do mean the world to us.

773-555-0006 Listen to how my ringtone or look how my screen saver describes my preferences, what I’ve been through or who I know.

“Gucci Bandana, Gucci Gucci Bandana, Gucci Bandana call me Gucci Montel…” or “Well my name is Susie and Gucci think I love that sucker, think I’m loyal but I f…” or maybe your screen saver says “I’m Wifey” or “Chi-Towns Finest”, these things that seem so frivolous and only take mere seconds to do say a lot about who we are or what’s our status. They are the constant or repeated messages we send ourselves and those who experience our ringers (our automated expressions) or phones (internal selves) around us, constantly. Our phone's customization that we form is just as important as our personal self. An example is when we don’t have that specific ringer that we want, we then inturn feel somewhat incomplete.

312-555-0007 Your battery is low, your phone died, did you die along with it?

Your phone dies. How do you respond? Does your stomach wince at the crime scene? Do you take your battery out and put it back in again only to realize its true- your phone cannot be revived by such a Neanderthal move. Why can’t you wait until you get to a power source; is your phone’s 4-inch stance that menacing to you the breathing, communicating human-being?