Friday, March 11, 2011

Love & Technology: Closing The Distance.

Since coming to Indiana, I have made several new friends. Many of them, especially Aurelie, prefer communication via text when not in person (and sometimes both...cuz we're sillies). My inbox fills up on a near-daily basis.

Also since coming to Indiana, and getting the new phone, I've had about a large and ever-increasing number of texts locked and saved in my inbox. Most of them are from friends and family in Connecticut, bits and pieces of innocuous conversations that either encapsulate that person's place in my life perfectly, or just simple messages saying they love and/or miss me.

I'm going through my inbox now, including the locked ones. And I'm realizing that I don't need to keep every single text from a missed person that reaffirms that they care about me.

I know they do. I'm secure in that. I'm not afraid that I've lost them, that I've chased them away or walled them off or anything. I'm 800 miles away, haven't seen them in 9 months and counting, and I still trust both them and their friendship completely. In some cases, even more than I did a year ago.

As odd as it sounds, deleting the texts is therapeutic. I don't need the talismans anymore. I have the faith. I have the knowledge.

They such fantastic things to have.

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