I am obsessed with shiny new things. I own many gadgets. I just love them. Darn! I have to stop loving inanimate objects. I am constantly on the Internet looking up new gadgets, playing with the ones I own or buying new ones. I save up my money to buy either new musical instruments or new gadgets *drools*. I think about it a lot. Why am I so engulfed by this gadget world of wonders? There is no wonder gadget out there, and the gadgets of today are far from perfect, but for some reason I don’t give up.
After much thought about why in the world I am so obsessed with these small pieces of technology, I have narrowed it down to three different things.
Somehow I believe that gadgets will somehow give me superpowers, magic. Who needs infinite knowledge when you have the Internet at your fingertips? Who needs a photographic memory (why wasn’t I born cool) when you have a camera on you at all times? Who needs the ability to tell whomever, whenever, what you are thinking when you have a phone? Technology must in some way fill the void that I have due to the absence of magic. Yes, there is some magic in this world, but I’m talking invisibility cloak, Harry Potter magic here. It reminds of the gadgets that Q makes James Bond in the movies. They seem to give James Bond super-human ability. James Bond was saved a number of times due to his AMAZING cell phone or REALLY COOL watch.
Another possibility as to why I might be so obsessed with shiny new gadgets, is that they somehow fill a void. Not to sound very cliché and emo, but I am in constant search for something that is just mine. Something that I can carry with me everywhere, keep my thoughts, and will be, somehow, special. That sounds all pretty creepy and, well, I don’t know, but it’s true. None of them have worked. I guess I do like my phone a lot, and I do keep a few thoughts, songs and things on it, but it just doesn’t do the job. I expect too much from my gadgets. I want them to be perfect and even though I realize that we, as a human race, will never achieve that perfection, I still buy these gadgets hoping that they will lead me there.
I still go to look on websites such as engadget.com and cnet.com to search for the next big thing. I will probably buy it, it will be mad kick’n, but it probably won’t do both of the purposes I dreamt it will (magic and that other thing) and yet I still buy it. I’ll then probably buy another device after it and so on. It’s an endless cycle that I choose to participate in. Why? I have no idea. I even acknowledge it and yet I can’t get myself to morf into a non-gadget lover. Oh well, I’m going to continue to want, and probably buy, gadgets. I can’t stop. They’re too cool. Quick! I need an intervention!
Sounds to me like you are a collector. Why not focus on collecting cheap things, like navel lint, dandelion dust, sand, gum wrappers, and pant buttons? Obsessing over pricey gadgetry may put you in the poorhouse! (Use this as motivation to make an ASTRONOMICAL amount of cold hard cash someday. Then your dreams will come true–as long as your dreams involve buying stuff.)