Hey guys! What's up?
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What's new with you?
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Nothing's really new in the life of Lucas Thomas Korns.
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Everything's the same
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Besides the fact that I don't own a working phone anymore.
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I think I was about 16 when I got my first phone
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and I remember that all my friends already had one so
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getting my own meant that I was now one of them
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part of the connected
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I've gone through a lot of phones since then
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because I've broken a lot of phones since then
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For example, one phone I mysteriously lost in Iceland last year
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Luckily, I purchased phone insurance and Apple generously sent me this new phone
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Ever since opening up the box it has been
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nothing but problems.
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The phone speaker doesn't really work,
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the microphone randomly shuts off sometimes in the middle of calls,
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and the cord has to be in the exact position for it to charge
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but that's not even the worst of it.
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So about a month ago one of my friends texted me asking me if I
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wanted to meet with him at a restaurant close to where I live
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grabbed my wallet, keys, and of course my phone
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and set out the door
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Being pretty new to this city, I had to trust my phone to take me where I needed to go
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The restaurant was farther than I anticipated but
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with my phone it was impossible to get lost
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everything was fine and great until...
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My phone committed suicide!
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but he ended himself!
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And in the process, almost ended me...
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Being stranded alone in a new city,
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lost, without any way to contact anyone.
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I think I need a new phone.
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The next day I planned on buying a new phone,
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but, then I gave it a second thought.
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Wait a second! I don't need to buy a new phone!
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I can live my life without a phone!
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And that was the start of my month without a phone.
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One month of navigating a new city without a GPS...
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One month of having to use payphones...
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And one month without a sure cure for life's awkward situations.
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And let me just go ahead and say that
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living without a phone for me has... well... it sucked.
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The month started out okay
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like, it was honestly really liberating
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to live my life phoneless
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Well today is day number one without a phone
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and I kinda like it... it's liberating
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But as I was continuously being left out of different gatherings
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because no one had a way to contact me
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Living without a phone for me is really hard.
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Yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say that from personal experience
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the world we live in in this age, really isn't meant to be lived phoneless.
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In fact in 2015, 93%
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of Americans owned some sort of cell phone.
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That's basically everyone.
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Everyone is using the same way to connect with everyone
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and what happens if you're left out of this necessary form of connection?
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You're left alone. You miss out on opportunities.
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You get left out of that group chat conversation...
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You missed that invite to that party...
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You miss that phone call from your mom
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And how are you going to relate to those Pokemon Go conversations???
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Is that even still played?
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Planet Earth is changing.
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Humanity is evolving and
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technology is rising
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We're living in an age of constant change
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a constant battle between humanity
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Technology rules our world
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and that's no secret.
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And as I spin around Google Earth,
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I hope you can visualize how our planet is changing.
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It's actually happening.
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Take physical maps, for example
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They're really hard to come across these days.
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Also look at payphones; they're going extinct.
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Oh and phone books basically don't exist anymore.
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Go ahead try and find one.
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This is simply the world that we live in today.
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I don't think it's any better than before,
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but, it's certainly not worse.
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It's no secret that we use our phones for pretty much everything
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but I'll admit that I really don't think it's as bad as people say.
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Technology really seems to be getting a lot of bad press recently
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Like somehow we're being brainwashed with the rise of technology
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But I think I totally disagree.
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So, it's been, like, three weeks,
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since I've lived without a phone
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And you know what I realize?
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The older generation always tries to give us a hard time
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because they think that phones are making us more antisocial
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but I've really never been more antisocial in my life than in the last three weeks.
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Like yeah, phones can be dangerous and
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they can serve as a distraction for more important things
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there needs to be lines that are drawn in your own personal life but,
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phone's are really powerful
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and really useful...
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I'll admit that you can never really beat a real life, in person conversation.
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but text conversations can really be beautiful.
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Dude! It's been so long!
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Being able to talk face to face with friends from across the world,
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So instead of fighting the direction of
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technological progress our world is rising towards,
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I'll join myself with the norm once again.
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Once again connected.
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Once again equipped with these.
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Everywhere I go, I will have a connection.
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Yeah, maybe my entire life can fit in my front pocket.
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But, oddly enough, I'm okay with that.
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