Sunday, November 19, 2006
the sticker's offafter 8 months of use and much, much, deliberation, a few moments ago, at around 4:00 P.M. of this day, November 19, 2006, i finally peeled the protective sticker off my iPod.
people have been badgering me since i bought the iPod to remove the sticker but it only took me until today to actually do it. i guess i just never wanted to get the iPod tainted or scratched. i wanted to preserve its beauty and fullness for as long as possible. this, of course, had its consequences. months into use, the plastic sticker began to yellow, fold up, crumple and lose all aesthetic appeal. my iPod looked uglier even though the actual surface remained unscathed. more months later, the parts of the surface that the folds and crumples exposed began to scratch and suddenly, the dream of preservation became a losing battle and a sad realiztion came to be: no matter what i'd do [save buy a new plastic sticker], no matter how much i believe it will work, the one thing i kept holding on to to keep my iPod beautiful will fail anyway. it will deteriorate slowly, make it look uglier and uglier, then finally, on one seemingly ordinary day, will peel off on its own, exposing an already pre-scratched, old-looking iPod. some things, no matter how hard, no matter how much we believe them to be saving our lives, we must let go. my iPod will still work. it will still play the same songs. it will still provide me the service it was invented to give. but i'll know that something will always be missing. i'll know it each time i look at the screen and see marks and scratches on the surface. and that's something i can never repair..
... unless i buy a new iPod. haha.
the adventure ended at 4:31 PM
