Mirror selfie

A mirror selfie apparently is a statement - of the phone you possess. 

Mira has found courage to show off her phone at last - after we got her an iPhone XR on Friday as a belated gift for her 10th results. Although the original deal ( which she made herself though not in writing) was that I would give her my iPhone, by the time the results came she felt it was too old and small for her. She raised hell while we continued to debate about the need for one for a school student. 

She argued that she needed one more than we did - she said she would feel excluded in school ( the past two schools being full of rich or made-to-look rich kids (even those who lived in dilapidated buildings exhibited their iPhones, she claimed). Modern-day parents seem to have their priorities different from ours - they happily spend on gadgets to keep their kids happy while being miserly on other needs. Children of school teachers have an advantage - they dont need to pay tuition fees or house rent (the latter if both parents are teaching in the school, I think) as it is on the school, so they probably have enough to splurge on gadgets or foreign trips. 

M wasn't asking for the latest, which is just out. She merely wanted a 10 or above but with 10 being almost out of stock we were looking at 11s until a casual trip to E-City threw up US-made XRs with facetime (the local models dont come with it as it was a blocked facility earlier). We had gone to a mall to drop Ash for a birthday party, while Mira chose to stay at home. In her absence, we bought it after coordinating over the phone.

The long and short is that we have a happy kid at home (her uncle told her later that material needs can never satisfy you as our wants keep changing) and we wont hear complaints about how Ash got a phone after his Xth Boards (but he didnt have one for almost a year and shared mine) while she didnt (she has had a new Nokia for the past 3 years that was originally bought for calls after church classes).

With that, we close a chapter - when we briefly saw her campaign for a IKEA wardrobe instead of a phone because the background of the locally made cupboard  didnt look good during online classes. Kids!

I hope she reads this 20 years from now and realise how silly and snobbish she had been.