How is a phone associated with it's user? He or she holds it in his/her hand all the time. If not hold it, it is always in the pocket of the rugged jeans. There is a particular way in which all of us take out our phones and speak on it as well.

 I have been using a friend's phone for some time now. Never thought about it, but a phone really is as close to that person as you can get if you're using his/hers; standing in 2013. The scratches on it, the names with which the numbers are saved, the keys, the music, and the way you press them when you make a call, everything is so much of that person. All this while in your subconscious you had been thinking the person uses the phone in this way, but no, the phone itself needs to be used this way. 

It has now become that person. Every move you make on it makes you feel like that person. 

It is strange how being close to an object that has been close to a loved one, can make you feel as close to the loved one. In fact sometimes you'll feel like you have yourself become that loved one. 

Associations are what memories are born out of. Thanks for the phone, man. It really is more than a phone to me. 

Thanks