{"id":665,"date":"2009-06-22T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/iphone-myphone-attachment-and-sympathetic-joy.html"},"modified":"2009-06-22T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:03:10","slug":"iphone-myphone-attachment-and-sympathetic-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/iphone-myphone-attachment-and-sympathetic-joy.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone, myPhone, attachment, and sympathetic joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take delight in the endless multiplicity of form. I especially delight in my iPhone<\/a>. And when I bought my new 3GS at 9am Friday morning, after the briefest of waits at a local store, I was delighted. I did pause to consider attachment, concluded I thought it was cool but I wasn’t deeply attached to it. Then I considered how it kinda looked like the monolith in Kubrick’s well known 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a><\/i> film.
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But I didn’t feel like worshiping it. I did want others to have one!
Mudita: sympathetic joy. However, when I passed by the Apple store on 14th and 9th, at 3pm, on my way to the new High Line<\/a> renovated public park, I waved my 3G in the air, hollered, “I got mine already! It’s great!” in pure glee, and proceeded onward.
 
Such is practice. Sharing the glee, yes, but I bet the Sanskrit for “gloating” is as unlovely a word as the activity itself.
I leave you with an iPhone photo of the High Line, an old elevated freight line turned to glorious public space. Share the glee.
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