A similar kind of incident had happened again. She had
dropped me under a car. There were no regrets on her face when she was picking
me up. She was very confident that I would be fine. Did she ever even realize
how much effort and pain I had to undergo in order for her to still use me?
This doubt had been growing inside me since the bus
incident. I felt I was being exploited and being taken for granted. I contacted
my buddy from the shop who was also taken the same day as me by a different
person. He told me that there were zero scratches on him and he had a tempered
glass put on his screen instead of a mere scratch guard. He was in excellent
condition and didn’t even know what being mistreated meant. When he heard of my
condition, he said that it had only been a year and it couldn’t be that I was
already in such a bad condition. “We are supposed to last much longer. Not make
efforts to say alive only after a year of use. This is supposed to happen maybe
four or five years down the line” he said.
Listening to all this I had decided that I was indeed being
taken for granted. I wasn’t being appreciated for my efforts and was instead
being scolded, cursed and laughed at for them. I wasn’t liking it anymore. I
wasn’t liking her anymore.
One day, she went to the toilet with me. She had started
doing this 6 months ago. Days were still good back then but not as good as they
were in the beginning. She sat down on the toilet seat holding me tight. But
that tightness was making her hands sweat and all that sweat made me slip and
fall into the water below. I can’t even describe the horror I felt when I fell
in. It felt very bad. No smartphone should ever go through what I went through
that day.
I could see the horror in her face. Then I saw her
expression, she was deep in thought contemplating whether to take me out or
not. It pained me so much to see that expression. I still held on, because I
still loved her but what happened today was the maximum humiliation I could
take.
She somehow got me out and looked at me. I was still holding
on but it was getting tougher. She thanked her stars that I was still working
but my screen got stuck and didn’t respond to her touch. I was done with her. I
couldn’t take any of it anymore. She switched me off and tried to switch me on
again. But I was dead!
This voice inside me is still alive and I keep seeing her
everyday trying to switch me back on again, trying to go to shops to get me
back to normal again but the other parts inside me have told that they can’t
function anymore because of all that water inside. She keeps going to shops,
she has visited three already to revive me but I have decided that even if some
miracle happens and all the other parts start working I am officially done with
her and won’t let them work for her anymore.
She is very determined and not ready to give up so easily on
me. She keeps opening the cupboard she has thrown me in, everyday, taking me
out, running her fingers on me and asking me to start working again. She keeps
telling me how much she loves me, how well she would treat me once I get back
to normal. But I know better. I am not falling for her lies no matter how much
earnest they sound.
She has gone back to
using a smaller phone again and I hear her telling her parents that she doesn’t
want a new phone and will try every possible option to get me to work again.
Sometime I feel sorry for her and think I should maybe start working just to
see that sparkle in her eyes again, but then I know what will happen a few
months later. Everything will go back to normal. I am better off like this
without my human.
P.S. – This is in loving memory of my Asus Zenfone 5 which,
I dropped in the toilet (I know all of you are going to judge me now). I
finally, went to the Asus service center (my last resort) and they said the
motherboard is gone and it would cost me 11k INR to get it changed. I was
devastated and didn’t buy a new phone for many days. Yes! I did get attached to
it. But finally, I did get a new phone because life goes on and you’ve got to
go along with it. I still love my Asus Zenfone. But my new phone a Lenovo Vibe
K4 Note is good too. However, I am not very sure if it is as happy with me as I
am with it. It must be having a million complaints just like my Zenfone but
trust me I have changed a lot after my Asus. I still am not over it! :’( :*
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