You just don’t.
I, in fact, am an idiot for doing so. In my life, there was one pretty, kind-hearted, smart, caring, and independent lady who had been texting me that she had re-read all of our SMS histories.
It may sound a bit old, SMS, but yes, I
still believe in SMS.. and Jokowi is a Jew like some people on Facebook say.
You can always be 167% sure that if you re-read your conversation with your
significant others or platonic friend, there’s something more involved there.
And, obviously, there’ll be that missing feeling to be felt consecutively while
re-reading that.
I’ve never had been living in an era where waiting for a letter for two-day
from your lover to come was a normal process, though I’m sure that re-reading a
piece of love letter at that time won’t be less amusing.
It must take great patience to read your lover’s descriptive words, let alone re-reading them, and finally hug the uniquely fragrant letter.
I’m quite sure that the lovely flowery-heart sensation of that will last longer because, like I said, it involves patience of hers there.
But, with today’s impatient-demanding-chatting platform, we can expect messages to be re-read in a snap.
Not to mention, we can also send your love messages to not only just one lady or man. It’s a multitasking era indeed.
Back to my miserable-not-getting-love experience, I still feel bad if I throwback at the time when I didn’t reciprocally reply to her statement that she re-read our silly conversation history. And, the message was followed by her saying that she missed me, and she said sorry for that.
No lady has ever directly confessed that she missed me since ‘Saddam’ was the only name that I knew as a brat who asked me for money in the high school canteen, instead of the name of a dictator of Iraq (that's when I was high school).
My reply to her was, more or less, “I really appreciate and am happy that you re-read our conversation and also miss me, please don’t be sorry for that."
WTF did I think? She might expect a simple one line of “I miss you too.”
The fact was I felt it’s too fast to get into the “I miss you too” stage.
We just had been dating twice as far as I could remember; the date-talking was
fun, the after-dating communication was fine, but I personally was just not on
the same page yet.
Furthermore, I couldn’t control her feeling toward me just as I couldn’t
make you—I’m not the newly-elected Prime Minister of Canada 2015—love me
instantly.
What I did was stupid.
She said “I miss you”... So what? That’s not even a start of a commitment.
In fact, I can miss so many ladies with different portions of the “missing feeling” only God, Splinter, and I know.
I was just hurting her feelings.
For that, I actually deserve more rejections from every grown-up woman with whom I’m smitten.
Boys, don’t repeat my mistake.
Embrace every “I miss you” you get from anyone, especially a wonderful person you love.
It’ll be irrational and unlikely that the message will be followed by “now marry me.” Don’t be scared.
Rumor has it that she's engaged now.
Now pray with me, by the time she reads this post, she will have already married someone who will miss her every night.
This lesson will be my jam, jelly, peanut butter, and bread.