Smart phone and I

All the while I didn't have a handphone. Even before retirement when I was still working, I didn't have one either.

I felt I could be reached easily either in office or home via the land line (or email). So there's no necessity to add extra burden to myself (charging, checking messages or miss calls...) and I was happy to keep my handbag lighter without this gadget.

I wasn't missing anything without a handphone really and I thought I would never, never need to get one.

I don't mind to be the odd one out in this era when even kids are chatting away on handphones.

If it's my decision, you know the same truth (that I don't need a handphone) still prevails! But when my eldest son ordered his dad an iPad, his younger brother gave him the bright idea of also getting their dear mum an iPhone. ( I would have stopped him if I had known earlier). That's how the story of smartphone and I began.

Whilst the father rejoiced in receiving the present he had long dreamed of, I was grumbling behind that the iPhone would be a white elephant for me. Partly also I felt a bit heart-ache to have spent so much of my son's hard-earned money.

For quite some time my "white elephant" was left in it's packing (no one was home to set it up and I was not interested to find out) until my youngest daughter returned from Australia. She subscribed immediately a data line for me and introduced me to the world of smartphone. She had worked before with a cellphone company in Australia and according to her, amongst other smartphones, iPhone was the first love of the senior citizens there. Based on this fact, she assured me that I would soon learn to love it too!

Her statement couldn't be more true as I had since then got hooked to using Whatspp, Skype, iMessage, facetime, gmail, google, GPS, bloomberg, camera, youtube ....

All on that iPhone!

Yes, it's every senior citizen's first love. I would gladly endorse this fact! And I must also not forget to thank my children for this wonderful gift!