But a moment lost has dissolved into time. No one is indispensable – the work always gets done, people find a way. We have slept, we have eaten, we have listened to each other – we have held each other’s attention in a world that is built on mirages. Stories around me have unfolded without a pause because the phone did not screech. How do we even have professional emergencies? Why do the boundaries between professional and personal merge so much in the Indian work culture? I have spent evenings oblivious to professional emergencies. ![]() However, if you deal in quality, I have some to share. Some of those who agree have gone as far as to incorporate a silent phone in their lives.īut what have I achieved by this, you ask? Nothing, if you want to quantify it. Relationships have soured and got better – some even see the logic of this. Parents, friends, bosses, colleagues have misunderstood me at some point in time – believing that I am wilfully ignoring their calls rather than believing that my phone doesn’t ring. ![]() Privileged as it sounds, the habit has got me in trouble more times than I care to count. It has been seven years since I have heard my phone ring. I hated to be that person who responded to every blip, every tinkle that the world demands out of us, taking its pound of flesh daily, slowly. I didn’t want the world breathing down my neck, too.Īn initial maternal instinct to preserve the sanctity of my newborn’s sleep schedule turned into something deeper that dictated the preservation of this resolve. A demanding, colicky baby who refused to sleep ever was keeping my head and hands full. The day I held my firstborn in my arms, I put my phone on silent. Don’t call me lame – watch the videos of this phone on YouTube and I dare you to not sway. ![]() Whenever we needed to let our hair down, my roommates and I would play the tones on my phone and jiggle our necks to the jazzy beats of my phone. A Nokia 3220, it played the snappiest ringtones and lit up with the lights circumferencing its frame. However, Steve Jobs was still working on them so they were yet to hit the market. In college, only iPhones could be cooler than my mobile phone.
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