Shorts With Kev Family! What is going on? Sorry I have been MIA fro your inbox the last couple of weeks. There has been some big transitions in my life that have taken time to adjust to and passions like this space have taken a back seat. Sometimes you can't do it all and that is completely okay!
The time had finally come.
For some? They live for this moment.
For others? They absolutely dread it.
For the final few? They could just care less.
I usually fall in the category of “living for this moment” but this time I walked in dreading it. What am I talking about? The all important phone upgrade
My iPhone 8 had taken its last few breaths and after being marketed to by a Verizon commercial while watching football, I knew it was time to make the switch.
Now it’s been a few years since going for an upgrade but last time I do remember Verizon’s process was smooth like butter. You were in and out in no time.
You were in and out in no time IF your cloud backup went fast. Last upgrade I had barely started photography and didn’t have hundreds of photos on my iPhone AND last time I had remembered to click the automatic iCloud background refresh so every photo I took, it would automatically save to the cloud
This time as I greeted Kiara, the Verizon worker at the door, I was expecting a similar experience. In and out. I would do some small talk here and there with Kiara but be out in time before any “real talk” happened. Well I was wrong. As the transition started and I was asked to make sure everything was uploaded to the cloud, I noticed one little but big detail
The automatic refresh was not on…..
So 3,678+ photos and hours of voice memos had not been uploading to the cloud all this time.
What started as 10 min of estimated time turned into almost 2 hours of uploading. I believe I went through the entire range of the mood rainbow. From anger to frustration to hope to fear, to confidence, and finally something I wasn’t expecting - CONTENT.
I was not content because I was getting a new phone. Yeah that would great and all, but I was content because for 3 hours I couldn’t tell myself I had somewhere else to be…
I couldn’t go and run some errands that might have needed to get done but didn’t need to get done right away
It was a moment where I just sat with Kiara, talked with Kiara, laughed with Kiara, and got way past small talk. It was a time where two humans could just connect. And throughout that whole time, Kiara and I just had time together. She didn’t have another customer to attend to and I didn’t have something to distract me to fill the time
And at the end of it all - we both said walking away there was a refreshing feeling.
Did forgetting the little iCloud refresh button cause some moments of frustration? Sure.
Did it feel like an inconvenience? Sure.
But how else would I have filled Sunday. Probably would have spent it alone scrolling on a new phone and not doing the errands anyway
When something doesn’t go your way today or exactly as planned - remember you’re still breathing, you’re still alive, count your blessings, and be grateful for what the moment may be and the people around you
And if anything else, or there’s one thing you take away…maybe it’s a reminder to go in your iCloud storage and turn automatic refresh on. BUT I hope you see the good in sometimes being inconvenienced