~ Telephone Booth ~

In the older comics and movies, there must be a scene that involves a pay phone or a telephone booth, especially in Superman. The telephone booth had become a icon for Superman because that is what he uses to hide his identity.

If I were to say that if I want to relate telephone booth or pay phone to my own self, I would say that it is the passiveness. I am a passive person. What is meant by passive? It means that like a ball, you have to give it a little push then only the ball would move. But how much it is going to be depended on your effort. I am a person that dislike trouble. Thus, my life has become a routine daily. If the routine is broken, most of the time it would be other people that does it. It is a rarity for me to invite other to shopping or just a day out with family.

Like the phone booth, it won't ring by itself. There must be a person on the other side then only the phone would be active. That would be the second thing that could relate to myself, quietness. By myself, I can have the whole day passed by without talking. I could spent the whole day in front of the computer or holding a book and won't be bored of it. That is my life.

The telephone booth is both private and public. The telephone booth in Superman comics and movies is a small secluded place that just allows one or two person in and it is also sound proof to other people outside. This shows the private part of myself. I am a private person. I keeps a lot of secrets in my mind. I don't share my daily life, like some FB users that posts everything, every second, to other people. You couldn't even see me posting things once a month. However, to my close friends, I could just blurt out secrets as passing comments. It's like Touch 'N Go, you said it, just leaving it hanging there and end of story. Just like using the phone, you can say anything on it. Anger. Tears. Kisses. Anything. However, the next minute it is forgotten.

Using the pay phone is a troublesome thing. You don't know that whether the phone line is good enough or not. Pay phone are considered to be an older way to communicate, since that everyone now have their own mobile phone in their pockets. And since that the pay phones are public facilities, most of them are not of good qualities. Since that I'm a quiet person, my communication skill aren't up to par to some of my peers. I could be considered to have difficulties of explaining my ideas to other people. Sometimes they might get what I am talking about (I'm not sure about this), but most of the times we aren't in the same page.

Besides that, I think that the telephone booth is a lonely object or isolated. That is quite similar to me if you see me in a party or even in daily life activities. You would see me holding my phone, sitting in the corner, not bothering anyone else. I only interact when there is a must. If not, I will be spending the whole time doing my stuffs, isolated in my own world. People uses the pay phone when it is a must, not because they like to.