This might sound cliché, but if there’s one thing I can’t live without, it would be my smartphone.

The small device has increasingly become such an important part of our daily lives–especially my own—that it’s now an extension of ourselves—however I’ve been able to refrain from giving in to its addictive tendencies.

My phone disappearing would only be a somewhat minor inconvenience, since I would solve many of the developing inconveniences with the small, black device’s cousin: a gray laptop (or I can buy a new one, but I don’t want to spend money on something that I can easily replace with something I already own).

Of course, a laptop wouldn’t fulfill every duty my phone was inhabited,

like being able to make calls (which I would have to do via the landline phone we still have in our house for some reason).

However, the majority of things my phone was once able to do my computer should easily be able to replicate, albeit with a few differences.

For example, emails would replace texts.

Would it be annoying for my friends to send me an email instead of a text, especially in a group chat?

Yes, yes it would be.

As the days fade into weeks

which melt into months

that slowly smolder into years,

It will become increasingly natural for me to pull out my laptop in a public or private setting to, say, text a friend.

Sure, it’ll probably turn a few heads (depending on where it’s at),

but I won’t care.

I won’t care what society might say about it.

I will adapt.

I always have, and I always will.

But it’s not a game of whether or not I can acclimate to the unusual situation.

It’s rather one of if I can agree with society to live in the world with the technological change in my life free from its harsh judgment.

And if not, I will have no choice but to push through.

After years of being used to using a bulkier counterpart to the slim, small smartphone,

it will eventually replaced it;

to the points where I can finally accept that I can live without my smartphone, the digital extension that I’ve lost.