Text Message
I had written this for my English class exercuse and thought it was cute enough to post.
Text Message
One message received. Automatically, you press the ‘open’ button to read it. If you hear it, you answer it. If you’re bored, you play with it. Or when you want to get out the world through FM or MP3 music, you listen to it. What is it that I’m talking about? Oh yes, I believe you know.
It’s called a cellular phone or a cell-phone to make pronunciation easier. Easily the most useful invention mankind had ever invented after the television and radio. I’m not sure if it’s true or not but a fellow Filipino was said to have put a twist to Alexander Graham Bell’s invention and thus, the cell-phone was born. How fantastic was it to have something that can be used to call, to listen to music, to play games with, to surf the Internet, to watch short movies and to send text messages? Ah, the wonders of technology had produced a lovely creation.
The trend of having a cell-phone started by the end of the nineties because it’s the year 2000 and technology was the game. Everyone had to have one. At first, only the rich could afford it. But as more cell-phones were created with better features and even better user-handling it became the new IT toy. So even the rich and poor classes competed to flash the gadgets. Everyone was mad about cell-phones. So, at year 2006, everyone and their dog had a cell-phone.
But come to think of it, it started as the toys of the rich. Electronic gadgets enjoyed their brief popularity. But it seemed that the cell-phone had evolved from a trend to a household name. You can’t walk on the street without seeing someone texting. You can’t ride a jeepney without seeing someone with cell-phone ear plug stuck on their ears. And you can’t go to the bathroom without it. It’s ubiquitous. It’s inescapable. It’s the cell-phone.
Of course, not all trends are advantageous. There are some dangers that came with it. The development of cancers, the constant lack of sleep by the old and young due to frequent texting, and even murders because of it. The young lose sense of spelling because they abbreviate their letters too much. It distracts students from their studies. I think there are more cancers that we’re not yet aware of.
Cell-phones had managed to worm their way into our lives. We don’t control it. It controlled us. We had to meet its constant demands. We had to buy cell-phone load to keep on texting. (On an unrelated note, Filipinos were said to send an average of a thousand text messages everyday.) We had to charge it to keep it working. Where had our free will gone?
That was why I do not own one. I’d like to keep my existence peaceful, thank you. I don’t want to answer its insistent ringing. I don’t want to open every new message. I don’t want anything to do with it. Period.
Oh, look, another text message in the inbox. Won’t you open it for me?