A Feeling when Techological Device is Withdrawn

 

Tech withdrawl Feel at 0200 am | 13-05-2017| Dubai Airport

Business Class | Emirates | Mumbai – Dubai – Seattle – Anchorage

 

First time in many years I find myself devoid of any electronic device on person. Thanks to the ban on taking any electronic device to the USA means your laptop, your iPad and your mobile phone, yes if it is a phone that is bigger that 16 cm have been neatly bubble wrapped and will transported in a separate packet which I need to collect at Seattle. A full 14:30 hours flight without a mobile phone feels a little odd may be that is the only reason I am using a pen and paper top make my notes. For once I felt that may be my son should have purchased a smaller phone for me, or may be I should have carried an extra smaller phone as a backup!

Frankly though I have not realized it – a mobile phone has been part of me for a very long time that I suddenly am suddenly feeling a sense of insecurity, a sense of something missing and a feeling that words don't seem to capture. It is odd to think that may be 10 years ago I did not own a mobile phone and now it is again the same. Then I did not feel a thing when I traveled, it was perfectly alright to travel minus a mobile phone, you were not in touch with anyone when you in a 14 hrs journey so what is the big deal now? I think the main reason is one of dependence. What if I had not owned a phone now? May be the kind of feeling that I have now would have not been felt.

Thinking of it – while technology brings you a lot of efficiency, if you get used to it and if that technology is withdrawn from you – you feel lost. I think that is my feeling as I write this. Will this have an impact on me? Time will tell.

My immediate thoughts are when I was asked to deposit my mobile phone was I should have not flown through Dubai, take a direct flight into USA, do not travel to USA. Never did it occur to me that I should have owned a smaller sized phone! Anyway I guess one needs to learn the art of travel!