𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴 𝓭𝓲𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓪𝔂 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓶𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱? 𝓘’𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓘 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓾𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸𝓹 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓼𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓪𝓿𝔂 𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘’𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓷𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓷 𝓐𝓵-𝓠𝓾𝓪𝓮𝓭𝓪, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 300 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓼. 𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓰𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓯𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘’𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓹 𝓼𝓷𝓲𝓹𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓤𝓢 𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓼. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓽. 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝔀𝓲𝓹𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱, 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓼𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓽? 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷, 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻. 𝓐𝓼 𝔀𝓮 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓴 𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝔂 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓷𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓢𝓐 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓘𝓟 𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓼𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓶, 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓸𝓽. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓹𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮. 𝓨𝓸𝓾’𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭, 𝓴𝓲𝓭. 𝓘 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓲𝓷 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓼 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼. 𝓝𝓸𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓶 𝓘 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓾𝓷𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓫𝓪𝓽, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓯𝓾𝓵𝓵 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓲𝓹𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓼𝓼 𝓸𝓯𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽. 𝓘𝓯 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓾𝓷𝓱𝓸𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 “𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻” 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓾𝓹𝓸𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾, 𝓶𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓮. 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷’𝓽, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷’𝓽, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔂𝓸𝓾’𝓻𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓸𝓭𝓭𝓪𝓶𝓷 𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓸𝓽. 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓻𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓭𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓲𝓷 𝓲𝓽. 𝓨𝓸𝓾’𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭, 𝓴𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓸.
Hello my unknown penpal ☺️.
We has this penpal thing back in school, you send a letter to an unknown kid somewhere, the schools exchanged the letters and made the letter network (which kid wrote to the other one, so when you write back, your letter gets sent to the same kid).
Anyway, I wrote the first letter and gave some basic info, my name, my parent’s names, what I’m interested in, some interesting books I’ve read, etc. I got a reply from the other end, some girl from another town (can’t remember the name now though) and this letter was a 6 page dissertation on her dolls… I just said fuck it 🤷.
I did the same thing many many years ago as a child…I enjoyed it.
I didn’t to be honest… I had no interest in dolls at that age. Sure, when I was toddler, but I think we did that in 3rd or 4th grade, something like that.
I think I just wrote back something like “Oh that’s really interesting.” in my reply… never heard from her again 😂. The teacher wondered why, I never told her what I wrote in my second letter 😂.
I have an old weather-nerd friend in real life who doesn’t take the hint when I don’t want to hear what the weather was like in Melbourne Christmas 1983 at 9am, changing dramatically by 11:47am etc etc
Then when I explicitly tell him to “stop, I am not interested” he comes back with his usual response of “I let you talk when I am not interested”.
Me: So tell me at the time, not keeping it up your sleeve as a defence card to play
Him: Oh I never tell people to stop. That would be rude
Me: Well that’s your problem not mine. Besides I only do it to get you to advance your technical skills, like encouraging you to click the microphone button on your phone to activate voice-to-text because you complain about typing being too difficult.
TL:DR Even dear friends can be annoyingly boring sometimes.
IDK, if my friend did that to me all the time, I would probably make sure I see/hear less of him. That would serously annoy me.
But, each to his own I guess 🤷.
A modern problem is lag in crappy quality phone connections. It makes feedback and interjections difficult. Real life with this friend is much smoother.
I definitely would have ditched him when younger (close to sixty now). Putting up with a lot more now if someone is otherwise honorable, loyal, honest.
People my age run out of friends if they ditch so easily. Indeed that explains many older people being lonely. New friends are harder to come by with age so they should learn more tolerance and social strategy (like my trying to get my friend to text me more than phone me).
There’s an app that lets you send digital letters to random people!
