Kia to No-Kia

Kia’ in Chinese or Japanese means do it! No ‘Kia’ hence would mean ‘Don’t Do it’! This story is about No-Kia to Nokia handsets. Mobile flip phones. I am known for my destructive and man (women) handling of my possessed equipments and devices. It all started with multiple specs, watches and phone in one year. However with time I realized the value of using things with care and responsibility, which led to me proudly owning the same pair of glasses, watch, camera and phone for yeons, till I moved to a trendy flip phones!

Attracted by the looks obviously I too hoped to possess one some day. Few months back I finally bought one. It was only few weeks that I bought it, it started misbehaving. It seemed to have a mind of it’s own. It had its own desire about when to ring and not ring. Go to my voice mail or not. And obviously had its own cycle of random sleeping cycle inspite of the battery being fully charged. After couple of visit to the nearest hospital where it was born, I just stopped getting panicked about it, as long as I could make and receive calls. 4 months down the lane my handset was pretty flexible with an extremely mobile and flexible head. But it still worked. Flexible head? Keep reading you will know…A month later as I was talking to somebody the head snapped from the body. The feeling was of a smooth abrupt collapse similar to a karate shot on somebody’s neck!

Surprisingly I could still speak. My friend on other side just asked what happened is it raining all of a sudden, why is there so much noise in the back ground! He could not understand what happened till I sent him the following snap…

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It went to a coma gradually from making calls to just incoming to nothing. I felt like a blind person for a week, since I could only hear the incoming calls. But could never see who was calling. Soon it denied to converse with anybody. All it did was, croaked every morning at 9 AM…and reminded me that it’s brain was still alive. Medically a stage defined as Coma (when only the brain continues to breathe). One of my very patient roommate was thoroughly pissed with it, since one weekend it kept croaking from 9 am till 12 !!! I was contesting on mercy killing by removing the battery. Am still contesting its death…especially after it survived a 24hrs journey across the globe, still croaking at 9 pm and reminding me that it’s still alive!!

This was the first destruction without any significant contribution from my side supporting my theory that objects, subjects and machines have their own life and purpose. Taking good care of them has nothing to do with its performance and working life. Hence I can revert back to my concept of flips or no-flips, Kia or No-Kia, have nothing to do with any objects survival. They will die and disappear as per their own destined and programmed life. We as humans only are disillusioned by having a control over them.