Time taken over a tech problem

Next day…

Oh no! What next!

Jason: You didn’t pick up last night. Thought you’d fallen in the bathroom and broken a leg. Nearly called an ambulance.

Sybil: I thought of texting you. I was busy. Downloading an app and recalibrating the headphones took longer than I expected.

Jason: Yeah. At this stage of life, I often can’t be bothered with some tech problem that I can solve but I’ll never need to do it again. 

Sybil: Waste of what little time I have left.

Jason: Rather play with the cat?

Sybil: And what’s wrong with that?

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Voice-over

Understandably frustrating wrestling with tech. Wait until the next day. Search online. Ask someone, lay or professional if you have better things to do with your time. Or even troubleshoot it and use it as a learning opportunity. 

Obslescent Technology vs Cultural Artifacts

After the tidy-up…

Basil: I see you’ve still got that old carpet in the middle of the room.

Polly: But I’ve had it for forty years. It has a history. It’s like an old friend.

Basil: It’s red. Doesn’t go with the room. Ditch it.

Polly: But you don’t abandon people just because of their color, or disabilities, or tattoos.

Basil: Look, I just threw out a perfectly good phone, it still worked, but I’d upgraded.

Polly: But an old phone is just obsolete technology. Carpet's an artifact. Apples and oranges. The carpet brings me joy. I remember the people who walked on it.

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Voice-over

When decluttering, according to Marie Kondo, you have to be committed to following a minimalist approach. Do it in categories, thank the items and discard them. But a key question, which Basil misses is, “Does it bring you joy?”