Texting is a wonderful invention. A quick little text can be sent out in a matter of seconds and a response could come back just as fast. But what about when that response doesn't deliver into your inbox that fast? Are they ignoring you? Do they really not have their phone with them? Are they doing something that requires their full attention and they cannot glance down at their phone?
No one will never know.
I understand that being left on "read" and not getting a response can be frustrating but at the end of the day, it isn't personal. People really are busy. Granted, they most likely have their phones with them and see the message when it's delivered, but that doesn't mean they will drop everything just so that text can be responded to. Most of the time, I read messages and just forget to respond.
I am guilty of it (the over analyzing of why someone is taking so long to respond) wondering what I might have done wrong to deserve a three hour and nineteen-minute response wait-time. But at the end of the day, if I really had something so important that warranted an immediate response, I would have called. And that is something I think we all need to realize.
I used to absolutely hate calling. Maybe it was because it was too personal, hearing someone's voice instead of just shooting a text. But then, in college, I had a specific friend who rarely texted and if he needed me, he would just call me. At first, I was terrified of such a "personal" way of communicating but then I started loving it.
It's so much easier to call someone and make plans or ask for information within five to ten minutes without there being any confusion versus a three-hour texting conversation, with a plethora of messages sent back and forth with someone and most of the time not being entirely sure of all the details.
This summer, in particular, I started texting one of my good friends but we were both busy working during the day and it just manifested that we would respond back to all the texts once, at night. Ultimately, we would send each other messages upon messages and full paragraphs to each other right before we would go to bed and wait for a response without having to deal with response times or pesky messages throughout the entire day.
In conclusion, I honestly most of the time just forget to respond to texts. Of course, I read most messages, but if you really need my attention, like Kim Possible once said, "Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me!"
