Rest in Peace, Galaxy A13
It’s late, i’m usually asleep by now, and definitely not writing. Oh well.
We lost something today… I mean I did.
May the Samsung galaxy a13 that i’ve had since september 2022 rest peacefully. I don’t think there’s a device that ever worked harder for me than that phone. I’m really weird in that my devices are kind of like family to me. I Remember the model number of the first home computer i had in 1996, how could I forget things that have such an impact on my experience here on earth, and literally change the trajectry of my personal journey.
I got the a13 the day I arrived at the long term addiction treatment center that I was in for about a year and a half. The place that totally changed so much of how I look at the world and myself.
There was an older woman from the upper east side at the rehab I was in prior to my stay at the program. I told her some of the things that had happened to me during the past few years. Also, because this rehab had ipads for us, I pointed her in the direction of this very blog.
I guess she read some of it. She decided that I was an inspiration and she was going to buy me a phone. You have to understand at this time the only things I had were the clothes on my back. I was so worried about not having a phone, and just like that it arrived on avenue d in the lower east side on the same day I did.
I needed it.
It did everything for me.I wrote blog posts, I stayed connected to my loved ones, I found a way to make music, it played street fighter.
This thing was a tool for me to learn and create and it helped in the transformation that occurred in me between 2022–2024. I am so grateful that events occurred how they did, and thankful the people that were placed there by the big thing that decides everything…the universe.
I wrote my counselors a thank you letter, like 3 days ago. I really did, because I’m still walking with what I learned from them.
I woke up this morning, and couldn’t get a13 to turn on. For some reason I didn’t freak out, though. even though I have no where near the resources required to get a replacement, and smartphones are literally required to survive in the world, especially for me.
My dad eventually came through for me with enough to get something to take over for a13. I am very grateful, because I know that he can hardly afford it.
i’m really tired, and theres a lot I have to do to the new phone so it’ll be what I need it to be. All of the apps have to be installed, the AI has to replace the regular Siri type thing that Google has. i’m just going to do it tomorrow, it’ll take a few hours. The a13 was the first smartphone I had that wasn’t made by apple, and I don't want to piss anyone off but I kind of became team android. if you’re a nerd, and you know a few things about computers you can actually pull off more things than you could with an iphone.
I had a good day yesterday, there was a job interview that I feel very positie about, and I should find out the news by friday. I wrote all this philosophical shit that I was going to put up on this blog, and I still may but today’s post had to acknowledge a13, it’s only right given what an incredible asset it was.
I’ve got no money, and i’m a little worried about things like eating. So if you could swing a contribution on ko-fi it would be very cool of you.
