Should I quit?

thinks's picture

Well I guess I feel ok, though that may be an overstatement. I just read the post that Jeff wrote on my last journal entry and there was some sense to it. I’m making all the apparent moves. My friend is never calling me, the most he’s done is text me, twice, and only one of them was actually fully addressed to me. Then in the second one he said “Hey dude id call ya but im really tired so ill talk to ya tomorrow then night man…Ill call u this time lol. (hope I remember? Lol.)” It was at ten oclock at night. Then like I said in my last entry he didn’t end up calling me, I called him. I really am going to have to stop communicating with him. It’s time for him to make a move, for crying out loud. I’ve been waiting for a call from him for a month and a half at least now, if not two months, and I haven’t gotten one.

Does anyone think that he could have actually just plain forgotten to call me? Or does anyone think that he may have said what he said because he wanted an excuse to be able to not call me? I’m still concerned that he has been bothered about what I’ve told him about myself. Every time I talk to him or get a text it always sounds fine, maybe even a little positive, but he’s never making any moves. I just know that has to mean something, whether it’s simply that he’s totally and overwhelmingly busy or that he just doesn’t want me or SOMETHING anymore. I don’t know what it is though, and he’s not talking so I may not know.

In my last phone call with him I said we needed to do something this summer and he said yeah, but other than that I have nothing to go on from him. I know I need to wait for his call but what if he simply doesn’t call, I don’t think I could just forget someone as important as he’s been. I mean, "The friendship that can cease has never been real." As Saint Jerome said. If I go half way through the summer without a phone call I feel I should call him, but if he hasn’t I’m over stepping a boundary and then things get even more shittier. I don’t know how to give up on this and I’m not ready to. I think it’s crap because I could give up on so much else, so much else, but this one person is so damn important to me…it’s ridiculous! Why can’t I use this type of energy to be a positive person? That’s all it takes to get somewhere after all, positivity, it’s even free, yet I don’t take much or any of it.

I hope someone hears me, I need something, any response would be nice.

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Neutrina's picture

He could just be busy...or

He could just be busy...or you could be drifting apart. Either way, you deserve more than a mostly absent friend. Maybe e-mail every few months to check in; if he's busy now, when things calm down he'll respond. In the meantime, I'd say find another friend. I hope things get better with him :(

"She's a mystery
She's too much for me
But I keep coming back for more
She's just the girl I'm looking for"
-The Click Five "Just the Girl"

jeff's picture

Eh...

Why is everyone surprised when I make sense?! :-)

If your "friend" never calls you back, then I fail to see how he ranks as important.

It seems like you're an option to him when he has time, but he doesn't make time for you. I think for you to be a friend, it has to be the latter, and not the former.

Whenever I've felt like I was doing too much of the work with friends, I just stop calling and communicating. I make plans without them, etc. And I see how long it takes them to call me back for a change. Note that I make plans without them, either alone or with other people, though. It's not I sit around staring at the phone.

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Azul's picture

you remind of Neffie...

you remind of Neffie...

thinks's picture

I'm sure that I am not this

I'm sure that I am not this Neffie, but I'm still going to ask if that is a good thing or a bad thing?

Azul's picture

that was directed at Jeff.

that was directed at Jeff. Y'know, him being the figure head almost of Oasis. Neffie=director o' Out Right.