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The first cell phone ever invented was in 1973 by a former employee of Motorola, Dr. Martin Cooper. It weighted 2.5 pounds, that's nearly the size of an average cantaloupe. The invention of hands free phones was to give people the freedom to communicate. The freedom to move around, the freedom to talk whenever and where ever. Thirty years later, a cell phone weights as little as 2.8 oz - with features that include Internet, organizer, navigation, and so on so forth. All this was done to give us our 'freedom'.

Today is my lucky day, my work day ends earlier than usual. Motivated to be getting out of work, I grab all the things I need to take home and rush out of there. Weekend, here I come! Driving home with AC on and radio turn to Jack FM, I am feeling good. By late evening, my cell phone is no where to be found. It is not in my purse, or my book bag, or in my car. Come to think of it, it is definitely hanging out in my work cabinet. For the first time, my Blackberry is free of me.

Back in the days when I had everyone's phone numbers memorized, from my mom's to my dad's to all of my friends', even the next door neighbor's. Phone numbers were to be memorized - in our head. Sitting in front of Facebook, mind-boggled, I search for any familiar phone numbers that will lead me to my phone. My brain is dead. And I am doomed - for the weekend. My cell phone has gradually become my brain.

It's been exactly 46 minutes since my discovery of this missing phone and I'm already pulling out my hair. I am frustrated as to how cell phone invention can really give us the freedom. It has more than anything, become our biggest authority, the thing we 'answer to'. They control us.