Not Always Available
No, I can’t always reply. Not because I don’t want to, but because I have a life that doesn’t fit inside a screen. My phone is not my oxygen. I don’t breathe notifications, I don’t feed on messages, I don’t exist in an “online” status. I am a person, not a reflection trapped in glass. Being an adult is not being available 24/7, it’s working, resting, thinking, feeling without having to report it. It’s choosing silence without guilt. The real world doesn’t vibrate in your pocket: it beats in the body, in the exhaustion, in the responsibilities no one sees behind a “why didn’t you reply?” I’m not a parasite of my phone. I don’t depend on it to exist. If I don’t respond, it’s not disinterest, it’s life. And if that bothers you, maybe the problem isn’t my absence… but your constant need for someone to always be there. @newgirldark @newgirldark