VITAL LUXURY

What is the one luxury that I cannot live without?

This question has been exercising my mind like no other offered to us each day. Part of the problem is the definition of “luxury“. What may be a luxury to some could almost be an every day mundane thing for others.

Growing up in the immediate post war era from 1946, my frame of reference and therefore my definition of what might be a luxury is altogether different from that of someone born years later.

Against that background, I have decided that my communications tool, my iPhone 6S is a luxury and one these days that I cannot do without.

I grew up in the days of trunk line telephone calls from landlines, telegrams costing in today terms close to 9 dollars for 12 over the wire, copied and hand delivered from the post office nearest where the receiver lived. Living in remote areas where the only communication was by VJY Outback radio and not having a landline at home or work until 1983 and appreciate why my iPhone is an indispensable luxury

Today I am using my “luxury“. I am sitting comfortably using my prepaid mobile. It costs me $30 a month. I have recorded this message down using Siri and thinking how much different it is now to then when it comes to the ease and convenience of communication.

My phone is a luxury I cannot be without.