Ooooof. I reached out to a friendly acquaintance who'd been having a tough time with a Thing a few months ago, saying I was just thinking about him and was wondering how he was doing, and got back a "thanks. Don't hit me up."
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Replying to @kendrictonn
what does that even mean? Serious question? Does he think you're trying to scam him? Hit on him? What?
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Replying to @MorlockP
I have zero idea, I wondered the same thing. His phrasing did almost make it seem like, you know, I texted "hey u up?" at 2 am.
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Replying to @kendrictonn
I had a very good friend of 25 years who stopped returning my phone calls and emails ~4 years ago, with zero explanation. About once a year I get an email from her address, get excited... and every time it's a virus or bot . People are inscrutable.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Ooof, I'm so sorry about that, too. A much older friendship than the one here, and that's rough. You'd think people would try to scrute at least a little bit.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy @kendrictonn
Yeah, I didn't worry that it was me. In this one particular case, she and I had dated, briefly, freshman yr of college (1988), she dumped me, and then went on to get married and divorced twice. Last we hung out, ~5 yrs ago, she visited the farm, met my wife >>>
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and said in a very odd tone of voice "I'm so happy for you!", as if there was some deep sadness beneath. One possible story I've told myself is that while she never wanted to get back w me, she had my former interest in her back pocket as some sort of yard stick, and >>>
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perhaps, at age 45 or so, she looked around at her own life of 3 masters degrees and yet her career was walking peoples dogs, two divorces, no net worth, living in a small place ... and I'm recently married, decently well off financially, and living on a 56 acre farm ...
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there was some weird conflicted emotion off in the space of jealousy / regret / sadness at no longer being able to look down on someone? Not really sure, but something in that space feels plausible.
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and to tie in this, maybe it wasn't about me at all, but about other stressorshttps://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1299775532356251648 …
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