I have misplaced my cellular telephone and a new one would cost money I do not have, so I have cancelled it. I am under contract to it so I still have to pay the bill until the contract is over, but I do not have a cellular telephone. It is wonderful. I would pay gladly my whole life to be free of these things. I cannot break the contract but I can change the data plan to make it less expensive, and I must remember to do this.
Usually after I have had it with the feeling of the ball and chain, I have some sort of ritual where I sink the cellular telephone du jour in a river. Then months or years go by and someone insists I get one again. This time I have simply misplaced it but I am sure that was intentional.
As an object I liked this telephone, it was the only one I have ever had that I liked as an object. As a friendly object that was mine I miss it, and now that there are no public telephones I am sure there will be times I miss it. Still, without this service I feel so much freer, so much more grown up, so much more in control of my destiny.
I know we ought to like cellular telephones but having spent my early life on edge, required to jump the very minute anyone sighed, cellular phones remind me of being on a leash or having an electronic collar. I feel I am under house arrest, tracked and tied and chained and serving, serving, serving, available and on duty and donating my last drops of plasma every time.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
But you could always turn off the cell phone and keep it and use it only whenever you feel need to, couldn’t you??
In theory, yes, but then people expect you to also answer it, I find. I turned it off for three days and instead of call my land line or e-mail me or write a letter, some relatives sent the police to my house. Many people only have a cell phone and forget one would not have it as one´s main phone.