In the contemporary world, mobile phone has become an inexorable device in day to day life. I cannot imagine myself keeping a cell phone even for one day. However, we have to keep it aside for certain occasions. It is for the betterment of the smooth functioning of our day to day activities. I am going to describe an occasion when I had to keep aside my mobile phone. It happened when I was working as a teacher in Maldives. We had occasional stomach aches during those time we had to switch off the mobile phone or to keep aside. I had to keep aside my mobile phone. After the meeting when I checked my mobile phone there were some calls and I got one was very particular for me because when I called back I got a sad news that I was asked to come back to my home because my son was not well. Anyway this occasion made me sad. Though it was a occasion that I had to keep at my mobile phone, in certain occasions it became some important…
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In the contemporary world, mobile phones have become an inexorable device in day-to-day life. I cannot imagine keeping a cell phone even for one day. However, we have to set it aside for certain occasions for the betterment of the smooth functioning of our daily activities. I am going to describe an occasion when I had to put aside my mobile phone. It happened when I was working as a teacher in the Maldives. We had occasional meetings during which we had to switch off our mobile phones or set them aside. I had to keep my mobile phone aside. After the meeting, when I checked my phone, there were some missed calls, and one was particularly important to me because when I called back, I received the sad news that I was asked to come back home because my son was not well. This occasion made me sad. Though it was an occasion when I had to set aside my mobile phone, it became significant in certain ways.
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