This is kind of split into two bits but they kind of match and work together so that’s what I’m doing.

Ok first, WILDLIFE!!! I had the best time thanks to my gals and ice cubbbbeee but this isn’t the point. On the first day Jodie Lee lost her phone lol. And it made me realise how much control a phone has over your life. Like we were both completely worried, scared, upset and cold lol. Now if a person made you feel like that you wouldn’t want them around yet we love our phones so much??

I then reflected on the whole day and realised my phone had let me down the whole day, I was trying to text and call people but it didn’t work and when my phone could have shown me why I love it so much it just failed. Like idk why I’m writing this cos I’m literally writing this on my phone and phones evidently have their perks but why do we actually love them SO much? I realised it’s easy to not use your phone. When Jodie and I went to the lost property tent there were so many iphones that hadn’t been claimed and I just felt so happy cos those people were most likely having fun without their phone and their phones were safe so it would all be ok.

I didn’t use my phone for pics I used my disposable and the pics will be better and more spontaneous. I didn’t use my phone to find people in a crowd I used my memory and waved around a lot. Jodie did find her phone in the end and we were happy about it but the level of happiness didn’t match the level of stress we felt earlier that day.

The next day my phone ran out charge so fast and I was so annoyed but it was actually so good. I was watching ice cube and I needed some videos to remember one the best moments of life and I got a few. Then just before ‘You Can Do It’ my phone died HA HA HA :)))))) so I was like actually fml but only for like three seconds cos I realised I don’t need to record something for it to be good. Like the best times I had this weekend aren’t fully documented cos it would take away so much fun from the whole thing if I had stopped having fun in order to take a picture.

I love having pictures and videos of things but sometimes they’re so staged and not true to what actually happened and sometimes one picture, video or film production can be the best part of the night. I have about 10 disposable camera pics of ice cube that are literally all the same and they’re so pointless but I will love them forever. But I didn’t take those pics cos I felt like I had to, I wanted to remember that exact moment. It’s such a weird thing but I think we all use our phones too much and rely on them WAYY too much to be more than they are.

Also what’s nice about not having your phone is people won’t talk to you. Hahah lol soz. But you feel way more there and people don’t rely on you as much and things aren’t as serious. Like you can’t tell the time, you can’t get up a map, you can’t text someone: you just get used to being completely useless. It was so sick for me especially cos I’m always the one to be looking up train times and maps and boring stuff it was so nice to not have to be that person like I wasn’t in charge of logistics which I love so much and I am so grateful I didn’t charge my phone properly in the morning cos otherwise I wouldn’t have had the chance to not be ‘the organised one’.

I love the videos I have from the weekend and I love my phone pictures but my disposable pics will be better and there are way more of them. I also have a real life disposable pic of Ice Cube smiling because of something i was apart of which is better than everything in the whole wide world xxxx