Assignment 6(late)- Isaac

Prompt 1- How would you fare in a post-apocalyptic world?
Prompt 2- What makes people so fearful of change?
Prompt 3- What does your background on your phone say about you? Why is it your background?

Prompts 1 and 2 are heavy, and I'm feeling in a light mood so I'll go with #3.

Let's cut to the chase. The background on my phone is a sign that says "SIDEWALK CLOSED."  This requires some explanation before I get into what it says about me. I saw this sign on my walk home from school, which I do rather frequently (approximately every day after school).On that particular autumn noon, there was construction work occurring next to the sidewalk on my route to home. Not ON the sidewalk. NEXT TO it.This sign happened to be place on the sidewalk several feet in front of the construction, which in actuality was just digging to put some pipes in the ground. The only conceivable effect any of this had on the sidewalk, other than the sign, was a bit of dirt and mud. Feeling I was Arthur Dent in a microcosm of a Hitchhiker's Guide type situation, I was highly amused and took the photo. I immediately made it my background and it has remained as such for almost a year now.

So what does this say about me? I like to think of the photo of a reminder of how utterly ridiculous humanity might be. I also am enamored with the feeling the picture gives me. It is the same feeling I get when I read the Guide for the 50th time, or when I saw the leaked Godzilla 2014 trailer- almost pure giddiness, be it from excitement, amusement, or some combination of the two. Although it may just mean I'm afraid of change. Or that I'm too sluggish and apathetic to swap photos. But I'd rather it not be that, which probably says just as much about me as the picture itself. In any case, the picture will remain. If I get a new phone, I may even go through the trouble of transferring it. When I really think about it, the picture is there because I don't know what could replace it.