Yesterday I mentioned receiving a sweet text from a dear friend.
I replied.
She corresponded in return.
We went back and forth.
Then she asked a question.
I started to reply....
but thought
Why am I typing a conversation when I'm just sitting here alone?
SO I stopped texting.
I dialed her number.
Without forewarning.
Without checking if she "was free" to talk.
I just called.
And said hello.
Seems simple enough, but is it?
Texting and emailing has changed our communication standards in so many ways.
I know that is nothing new, but something that saddens me.
"Talking on the phone" seems somewhat vintage.
At least in comparison to texting, messaging, DM-ing, emailing.
To verbally hear a person's tone and happiness in their voice when they speak is magic.
Or to hear emotion of any kind in their voice for that matter.
Reading their Words in a text could never compare.
Maybe I'm just feeling sentimental.
Or maybe it's because my days are filled with writing words and reading words,
that when I heard them from a voice I haven't heard in some time,
it was really quite beautiful.
Happy Monday
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