
forgetting your iphone password is possibly one of the scariest things that can happen to you. it's like picking up a pen and realising you no longer know how to write. it's falling off a ladder and hitting every rung on the way down. you tell yourself, this is the one. this time you'll get it. you fall faster but the rungs get further and further apart. try again in 5 minutes. try again in 15 minutes. try again in 1 hour. how far down does it go? you look down at your hands and they're not your hands anymore. your hands knew your iphone password. did you ever know what it was? you're not the same person you were yesterday, when you could get into your phone. who were you, back then? what did it feel like to put in your password? what were you thinking when you set it, years ago? you can erase your phone. you can stop falling at any time. you might even be able to restore it from an automatic backup. lose a few days of photos and data in return for everything before then. but would you deserve it? would it feel right, to log into your phone with a password that is not your password, read through messages from a person who is no longer yourself. it'd be breaking into a stranger's phone. but maybe you can just catch the next rung. you're sure you know it this time. you were sure last time, too. but maybe you just typed it in wrong. you will never know.
source: sf3 2nd impact