01 July 2013
My phone is bigger on the inside...
I succumbed to temptation and upgraded to an iPhone this past week. Mind you, it's not the latest iPhone (I got the 4 for free with my new contract) but it's an iPhone all the same. I wasn't prepared, though, for the challenge it gave my insides when that little white box appeared on my doorstep...
There is something so sexy about Apple Packaging.
Even the way the box slides open...
The new, higher, phone bills are a bit daunting, but aside from that I felt something else. I felt resistance.
I resisted starting the set up process for a good half a day. I put the box down (after I'd posted the above photo on Facebook with the caption "It's Here!!!") and went off to yoga, with my ancient texting phone in my pocket. After all...that was my phone...that phone represented the real me.
But did it really?
I felt resistance to break away from my meager little (ancient) texting phone to step into the Smart Phone Universe because I was holding onto some semblance of the old me.
The new me is the woman who walks out the door to yoga class every day with my water bottle and a smile on my face. The new me is the emerging health coach and future culinary arts student. She is not an ancient texting phone that shuts off without warning.
The friend I am currently staying with commented on the fact that it's hard to break away from the old because it's become who we think we are and unfortunately, sometimes who we had become was a lesser version of what we can be. And we hold onto that identity. After all...it's much easier to believe we aren't worthy rather than how amazing we truly are. We are capable of such greatness, it can be scary at times.
Keeping all that in mind regarding my new iPhone...did I feel they were for a certain "type?" Did I not feel worthy? Was I afraid I'd turn into one of those people who is tethered to their phone and all other devices? I want to continue to explore all these feelings because in reality I am upgrading my whole life. I'm becoming "Lee Ann 2.0" or maybe after Iona I am becoming 3.0 :D
So yes, I am now a member of the iPhone Universe and I admit to feeling a lightness surrounding it all now. It's more in line with the upgraded me.
Seriously killing me with the sexiness
And how COOL is my Doctor Who inspired TARDIS phone case!? The bigger part of me just wanted to be able to buy that ;) It fills me with glee every time I look at it.
XO
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