Sunday, March 15, 2009

iPod Loss

This past Friday, something terrible happened. As I was about to listen to my iPod, it malfunctioned and for some un-known reason, all the songs on my iPod were deleted. At first I was really mad, but I told myself that I would just have to put all the songs from my iTunes library back onto my iPod. I would be annoying, but the problem would be fixed. However, when I tried doing this, the songs wouldn't upload to the iPod. I've had by iPod fro about four years, so my parents said it was probably just old and needed to be replaced. We decided to go to the store today and I was fine with that until I had to go through all of Saturday without it. I listen to my iPod a lot and not being able to was a shock. I went into an iPod depression.

During this depression, I realized how spoiled I was. I thought of all the people who weren't able to afford things like iPods and, going even further, I thought of all the people who can't even afford food. It's sad that I couldn't even go one day without an iPod. It's also sad that in the community we live in, it's thought of as weird if you don't have one. Obviously materialism is a high value around here, but would it be possible for any of us to go without our iPods or cell phones for a week? Probably not for me.

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