I don't believe in luck or I want to not believe in luck. My main philosophy is that everything in life happens for a reason and the reason is not always clear and right in front of you. In fact, it might take years for you to understand that reason and heck you may never even find out if you are have not found your consciousness. If something happens to you throughout the day that may seem "unlucky" is not because you have suddenly "lost your luck" and hope to get it back the next day. No, the experiences you have that day you "lose your luck" are supposed to teach you something or maybe they are to lead you somewhere that you otherwise would not have gone.
In any case, recently I've had a lot of trouble with my phone! Let me just first give you a brief history about my phone usage. I had the iphone 5c for about 4 years and I loved using that phone. I was traveling a lot in between those 4 years from here and Iran but in any case, I had the phone, it worked very well for me and all was good. After 4 years of using the same phone and finally starting to see some "glitches" on my phone, I decided it is time for a new phone. I couldn't afford the expensive latest iphone phone OR the latest samsung phone, so I got a sweet deal at Project Fi of Google, an unlocked new phone (nexus 5x) for $200 and a new service with Project Fi. I LOVED my phone. Sure, it had less "features" than my iphone, but it was sleek and light, slightly bigger than my old iphone and I was happy with it. 2 weeks into using that phone and it was stolen. Well, I thought it was stolen. I had left it in my car, while I had gone into a client's house and forgot all about it. When I came back, it was gone and the window was slightly down. I looked EVERYWHERE! I looked around my car, inside my car, and I called it several times but it was no use. I figured somebody that really needed it probably took and it and I wished them well. So, I went back to using my iphone with the old service I had (Virgin Mobile) and cancelled Project Fi for the following months.
I was awaiting my husband's arrival at the time to the U.S. so I thought, when he comes here, we can buy phones together, since I knew he, too, wanted to get a phone. So he did arrive and perhaps days after his arrival, we went to T-mobile and got their best deal! Buy one samsung galaxy one and get the other one for free (after mail-in rebate). He got the Samsung Galaxy Edge 7 while I got the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. I was ecstatic with my new phone. Now, you have to understand that at this point of my life, I am not a person who is on her phone 24/7. In fact, since I have completed the #InsaneProductivity course with #DarrenHardy I have limited my phone usage to a whole lot. In any case, we both used our phones and loved it. We both purchased a case for both our phones and a glass cover for the front. My husband's phone fell from his hands a couple of times and of course only cracked the glass cover so all was well. I was very careful with my phone to not fall until one day, after about 2 months of having the phone. I was getting out of my car to go to the electricity department at our neighborhood (we had just moved to LA for less than 2 weeks). I had a lot in my hands and sure enough, my phone slipped out of my hand and fell to the ground face down. It fell so lightly that I was sure nothing had happened. Sure enough, when I picked it up, there were no visible cracks on the screen at all. I rushed to the electricity department and stood in line and took my phone out to give my husband a call and there I saw, that my phone would not turn on! A blue light was on and the screen was not responding to my touch. In a panic, I tried turning it off and on again but even that didn't work. To make a longer story short, my phone's actual screen was cracked beneath the glass cover. Thus, this had led to the LCD screen to break and the warranty did not cover this damage and after speaking to a T-mobile representative that led me to a third party "phone fixer", it would cost about $200-$300 to fix! I'm talking about the galaxy phones that constantly there are commercials about it never breaking and how amazing the quality was and whatnot! I was shocked! So I decided, fuck this, I'm not going to pay that much money to fix this phone, instead, I'll go back to using my Nexus 5X. (Oh I found this phone in my car weeks later right before we came to LA in fact, I took it to the car wash and the guy that washed the interior car fully found it! I had originally decided to sell it but when this incident happened, I decided to go back to using this phone).
Sure, my Nexus 5X was incomparable to the Galaxy Note that I had but I decided to make do. Only two weeks later, my phone started to show signs of not working! And sure enough, it shut down completely and would not even respond to my touch! The same exact thing basically had happened to it without me actually dropping it! So I contacted the Google company and sought answers! Turned out, this was a problem the phone itself started to show and so they agreed to send me a new phone! I was phone-less for about 2 days still since this happened on a Sunday and they shipped the phone on Monday and was received by me on Tuesday.
In any case, right now, I'm using my new Nexus 5x and my old/new Galaxy Note 5 is resting in my closet! I honestly don't know what to think of this situation. Was it all bad luck? Or were they merely experiences I needed to have in order to be sure that the best phone company for me at least is Apple? I would've gladly gotten an iPhone now but since I'm already in debt with all my credit cards and I don't have a steady job, there is no way I can do that! I even though of perhaps selling my two phones and getting an iPhone instead but even that won't work because the Galaxy Note 5, once fully mended meaning, once I pay $300 to fix it, it would only be worth $300! Then, the Nexus 5X, I'm also sure that this phone as well won't be worth much because as of late, the newest Nexus model is 7p!!
For now, I think I'm just going to stick to using my Nexus 5x until it really can't work anymore and then perhaps then, I will consider an iPhone.
In any case, recently I've had a lot of trouble with my phone! Let me just first give you a brief history about my phone usage. I had the iphone 5c for about 4 years and I loved using that phone. I was traveling a lot in between those 4 years from here and Iran but in any case, I had the phone, it worked very well for me and all was good. After 4 years of using the same phone and finally starting to see some "glitches" on my phone, I decided it is time for a new phone. I couldn't afford the expensive latest iphone phone OR the latest samsung phone, so I got a sweet deal at Project Fi of Google, an unlocked new phone (nexus 5x) for $200 and a new service with Project Fi. I LOVED my phone. Sure, it had less "features" than my iphone, but it was sleek and light, slightly bigger than my old iphone and I was happy with it. 2 weeks into using that phone and it was stolen. Well, I thought it was stolen. I had left it in my car, while I had gone into a client's house and forgot all about it. When I came back, it was gone and the window was slightly down. I looked EVERYWHERE! I looked around my car, inside my car, and I called it several times but it was no use. I figured somebody that really needed it probably took and it and I wished them well. So, I went back to using my iphone with the old service I had (Virgin Mobile) and cancelled Project Fi for the following months.
I was awaiting my husband's arrival at the time to the U.S. so I thought, when he comes here, we can buy phones together, since I knew he, too, wanted to get a phone. So he did arrive and perhaps days after his arrival, we went to T-mobile and got their best deal! Buy one samsung galaxy one and get the other one for free (after mail-in rebate). He got the Samsung Galaxy Edge 7 while I got the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. I was ecstatic with my new phone. Now, you have to understand that at this point of my life, I am not a person who is on her phone 24/7. In fact, since I have completed the #InsaneProductivity course with #DarrenHardy I have limited my phone usage to a whole lot. In any case, we both used our phones and loved it. We both purchased a case for both our phones and a glass cover for the front. My husband's phone fell from his hands a couple of times and of course only cracked the glass cover so all was well. I was very careful with my phone to not fall until one day, after about 2 months of having the phone. I was getting out of my car to go to the electricity department at our neighborhood (we had just moved to LA for less than 2 weeks). I had a lot in my hands and sure enough, my phone slipped out of my hand and fell to the ground face down. It fell so lightly that I was sure nothing had happened. Sure enough, when I picked it up, there were no visible cracks on the screen at all. I rushed to the electricity department and stood in line and took my phone out to give my husband a call and there I saw, that my phone would not turn on! A blue light was on and the screen was not responding to my touch. In a panic, I tried turning it off and on again but even that didn't work. To make a longer story short, my phone's actual screen was cracked beneath the glass cover. Thus, this had led to the LCD screen to break and the warranty did not cover this damage and after speaking to a T-mobile representative that led me to a third party "phone fixer", it would cost about $200-$300 to fix! I'm talking about the galaxy phones that constantly there are commercials about it never breaking and how amazing the quality was and whatnot! I was shocked! So I decided, fuck this, I'm not going to pay that much money to fix this phone, instead, I'll go back to using my Nexus 5X. (Oh I found this phone in my car weeks later right before we came to LA in fact, I took it to the car wash and the guy that washed the interior car fully found it! I had originally decided to sell it but when this incident happened, I decided to go back to using this phone).
Sure, my Nexus 5X was incomparable to the Galaxy Note that I had but I decided to make do. Only two weeks later, my phone started to show signs of not working! And sure enough, it shut down completely and would not even respond to my touch! The same exact thing basically had happened to it without me actually dropping it! So I contacted the Google company and sought answers! Turned out, this was a problem the phone itself started to show and so they agreed to send me a new phone! I was phone-less for about 2 days still since this happened on a Sunday and they shipped the phone on Monday and was received by me on Tuesday.
In any case, right now, I'm using my new Nexus 5x and my old/new Galaxy Note 5 is resting in my closet! I honestly don't know what to think of this situation. Was it all bad luck? Or were they merely experiences I needed to have in order to be sure that the best phone company for me at least is Apple? I would've gladly gotten an iPhone now but since I'm already in debt with all my credit cards and I don't have a steady job, there is no way I can do that! I even though of perhaps selling my two phones and getting an iPhone instead but even that won't work because the Galaxy Note 5, once fully mended meaning, once I pay $300 to fix it, it would only be worth $300! Then, the Nexus 5X, I'm also sure that this phone as well won't be worth much because as of late, the newest Nexus model is 7p!!
For now, I think I'm just going to stick to using my Nexus 5x until it really can't work anymore and then perhaps then, I will consider an iPhone.
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