if we didn't care about them.
"they"?
well, anything.
a phone wont last if we didn't charge it overnight.
a hard disk would go whizzing and stop spinning if it gets layered in dust, unused.
a youtube channel starts to lost its subscribers when you don't upload anything for a while.
a cat leaves when you don't feed it.
health turns ill when you stop caring hygiene.
friendship become awkward when you stop talking to each other.
faith wither when you start to ignore your faith callings (prayers, holy books).
old dogs can't learn new tricks.
most old people just don't care much about learning how to use a computer.
maybe its alzheimer. maybe it's just them being senile.
or maybe they just can't bear to lose anything, anymore. i don't think they totally don't know how technologies work. they do but they get to see something beyond convenience and cool fads.
you can play fun games in phones. store contacts. store pictures.
but what happens when people stops playing a game that once were popular? a game that we have become so good, high scores unbeatable?
what do we feel when we lost all those numbers of peoples we've met due to awry updates? when sweet pictures lost due to corrupted cards?
or a phone lost.
worse case scenario, no backups. (serve you right. store them in clouds.)
shit happens.
they do happen even more so when you get to live up to 70 or 80.
sure, deal with it. be good at another game. ask back people for those contacts (good luck finding that cool girl you've met during a hike somewhere). go on a second trip to giza to snap that awesome picture of you jumping over the pyramids.
but after so many, you'll get tired. you tend to just, give up.
people hold on to things that has last the longest. the one that stays with them up till present.
things that they care and with a strong reason to.
love, faith, medals, pets,
memories, sanity,
whatever those are.
sorry i didn't write on you often.