Beaten up and not beating anymore!

It is pretty beaten up but it has been my beating companion for more than 10 years now. It came into my life when I was at a turning point. I can divide my life before having this when I was a business minded, human race, win the game person and after having this when I changed dramatically and I left many things. The second option I had planned that year, was much darker.

I took it to a long adventure. For all these years it was the only living beating gear traveling with me in every adventure. Forests, desserts, sea and mountains. From war zone in the Middle East to the Mediterranean coast in Europe and the Rocky Mountains in America. Hiking unknown places and even mapping unmapped places. Finally it has started to fail. Right now the joystick doesn't work. Interestingly I am at another turning points in my life. I should take a break and think what I am going to do next? But for now this gear needs a graceful retirement as it deserves.

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