Kindly unspoken

You show your emotion

And silence speaks louder than words

It’s lucky I’m clever

If I didn’t know better

I’d believe only that which I’d heard

~Kindly Unspoken

 Kate Voegele

So there’s this guy. And there’s this girl. They’ve never met. Well, they’ve never met in person, but they know each other pretty damn well. They “met” by happen stance and have been talking ever since. They talk all the time. It would only be natural that some interest would spark. Here’s the dilemma: they live in different states, making actual face to face interaction near impossible.

For some people, it is easy to share emotions. By “some people, I of course mean women. Women usually have no problem realizing how they feel and the bolder ones have no hesitation going after it. Then there are these guys. You know, the type that keeps things bottled up for fear of rejection, or the unknown, or whatever the case may be. Well, this boy and girl have the oddest situation. I can’t think of a time where there has been quite so much dancing around an issue. The boy greets the girl every day with a witty “tell me how much you miss me.” The girl will respond by sending an equally witty YouTube video of the

Tyler Hilton version of “I’m not Missing You at All.” So on and so forth.  When the issue of mutual interest arises, the boy will always say that no matter what he feels, he will never admit to anything. I’ll give you a big fat WTF right this second and I almost want to smack him over the head with it!

Of course, after months of this stupid game of emotional tug of war, the boy finally has a drunken moment and feels the need to admit his feelings, hopefully pleasantly surprised that they are in fact being reciprocated. (Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten that these two haven’t met, but what happened to romance in the old days when people just wrote letters and fell in love? I think it’s time to bring that simplicity back to relationships, don’t you agree? Of course you do because I’m the one writing this. You are the spectator! Haha! ) I digress.

The next day the boy has a confession- he doesn’t remember any conversation with the girl, let alone admitting to feelings he claimed he’d “never admit too.” Then, back peddling the way most boys do, he says he only said such things to make the girl (who was in a drunken emotional state) feel better. Are you kidding me? What kind of guy is so arrogant as to think that when a girl calls him crying about another guy, that his emotions will make her smile. Someone with a

LARGE ego, that’s who. Plain and simple.

The girl would disregard this entire situation, however, the boy’s actions say more than just drunken words. And we all know that drunken words are sober thoughts, right? Of course it’s right. So where do we go from here? Only time will tell…

To be continued, I’m sure…

Written 6/24/08