To hear the phone as the line simply stops can be amazing. Text messages allow the user so much freedom - the words are concrete, simple, and predetermined. But a conversation over a telephone has ultimate potential for good and bad.
Even the act of calling truncated by another - without any words spoken - have massive impact. It is not the message in the bottle that is a text or a tweet or a facebook post. It's the very direct hey, you, I have something to say to you. Rejection in the form of disregard or disdain to another's phone call constitutes a new experience, knowing that we all have phones within an arm's reach, if not already in our ears.
The hurt is deliciously savage and I try to remain empirical.
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