Adios a Verizon!

Everytime I get overages on my cellphone bill, two things happen:

1. I feel bad
2. I disconnect from my friends/Roe

What do I feel bad about? Paying extra for my bill, but also spending so much time away from the people right around me. Relationships (of all kinds) are just about the most important thing in my life. The selflessly loving part of the Second Commandment is hard for me, but valuing other people is not. So, it's not that I hate people, or that I want to avoid remorse that's driving me to get rid of my cellphone.

I'm getting rid of my cellphone because I want to be free. I want to be free to be where I am, to not have interrupt my activities because any one of a billion people around the world want to reach me, to be free from charging my phone and packing the cord. I want to be free to have extra space in my pocket. I want to live like everyone for last few millenia before the advent of the cell phone.

But most of all, I want to be free of a contract to the man. Really, $25/month isn't a lot of money, but having to play by Verizon's rules is too much. The whole system of conveniences—car payments, cable bills, Starbucks every morning—seems to be designed to make me more indebted to the corporations and less in tune with abundant living.

This is a big plunge, so I'm giving myself 90 days to see if I really can return to the primitive state of humanity—the pre-cell phone era. Wish me luck!