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de-sensitised
in this field of work that promotes glitz and glamour, it's so easy to lose sight of the world. the real world. not the one with ten thousand filters and bokeh effects to highlight the best moments, ignoring the everyday mundane.
my parents wanted to get me a graduation present so i swallowed my pride and asked for a phone (the 3.5 year old Galaxy S2 hangs mid-sentence at least once every 2 minutes). before going to the shop i kind of had an idea of which phone i wanted to get. i must say it was a biased decision because i saw how my company had given out that phone to a couple of influencers (cough fancy name for blogger cough) so i thought it must be pretty good and value for money. i also recall how kids were throwing their phones on stage during YTFF and so in my head these phone-things didn't cost a lot of money. so i got the shock of my life when i learnt that a phone with a monthly plan costs almost $600. to put that into perspective, it's two months' worth of pocket money when i was in college and half a months' salary now. and these kids could just throw them away.
this episode reminded me of the value of money and how in the real world, money is hard to come by.
my parents wanted to get me a graduation present so i swallowed my pride and asked for a phone (the 3.5 year old Galaxy S2 hangs mid-sentence at least once every 2 minutes). before going to the shop i kind of had an idea of which phone i wanted to get. i must say it was a biased decision because i saw how my company had given out that phone to a couple of influencers (cough fancy name for blogger cough) so i thought it must be pretty good and value for money. i also recall how kids were throwing their phones on stage during YTFF and so in my head these phone-things didn't cost a lot of money. so i got the shock of my life when i learnt that a phone with a monthly plan costs almost $600. to put that into perspective, it's two months' worth of pocket money when i was in college and half a months' salary now. and these kids could just throw them away.
this episode reminded me of the value of money and how in the real world, money is hard to come by.
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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