Personally, I couldn’t do without a cell phone at all. I use my phone every single day, and I have an alarm on it too, so if I didn’t have a cell phone at all, I probably wouldn’t even wake up. And I’ll admit, I wouldn’t even know how to set a classic, old-fashioned alarm clock anymore. Although I often tell myself that I might get one again someday and go back to my childhood, because I also remember those times when I always set my grandpa’s alarm clock for him when he went to work. He had this even bigger, medium-sized green round alarm clock that made this typical raspy sound I’ll never forget.
Now alarm clocks have been replaced by cell phones. I think that in a few years, alarm clocks will be popular again instead of phones. I do understand that a cell phone is really practical because you have everything in it. And if you don’t have everything in your phone, then you probably don’t have that high-quality, perfect cell phone, because tell me, what isn’t in a cell phone? Actually, you also have a calculator in your phone. So when I was still in high school, I didn’t have a calculator at all, because the one on my phone was enough for me. Same thing in elementary school. Except in elementary school, they banned us from using the calculator that was on our phones.
And the teacher and the principal made it mandatory for us to bring a classic calculator, like the ones from back in the day, so it wouldn’t be on our phones. At the time, it bothered me because it was basically a waste of money. Why should I buy a calculator for elementary school when I have one on my phone? My parents didn’t understand this either. But the teachers thought we’d cheat on our phones, that we’d have cheat sheets and things like that. They thought we wouldn’t pay attention in class because of our phones, but I never did that—I was always a perfect student, and I enjoyed it. Studying was my hobby, which my parents liked.