Gr8 Txt - “I’ve never said so much without saying a word”
Life, Randoms - - Posted on January, 8 at 6:23 pm
Sometimes I save text messages that I’ve sent or received. They range from an angry “F off” to a simple “Smile” or nice “I love you” message. One might be surprised that I keep an angry message. I do it for the same purpose I save the nice ones–For whatever reason I want to remember who I was and what I was thinking at that particular day and time. Maybe I’m a little weird, but I’ve found it’s easy to conjure up feelings I once felt with a time and date stamped message. Without those little electronic words to look back on I might forget about an otherwise insignificant day all together if I don’t happen to take the time to write about it. And as much as I’d like to write more often, most days I don’t.
My favorite message is one I sent on 10/23/2006 at 2:22pm that said in part, “…this morning I woke up smiling for the first time in a LONG time. (Thanks!)” I refer to it quite often because that morning marks a pretty significant point in time for me in the simplest way–after months of waking up and repeatedly asking myself, “God, is this really my life? Is this really happening to me? Do I really have to get out of bed today?” I actually woke up happy and I smiled to myself. (And it wasn’t even the weekend!) It took a few moments to recognize the reason for my newfound happiness, but more importantly the point being that I didn’t automatically ask the usual dreaded, depressing questions I had been routinely asking myself on a daily basis. I wasn’t forcing myself to try to be happy–I WAS happy! It was almost like I had forgotten what it felt like.
Funny–who woulda thought a text message would end up being a mile marker in my pursuit of happiness? It’s amazing how a few simple words say very little but can mean a whole lot.
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