WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A MISSED CALL?

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A MISSED CALL?

 It was a lazy Sunday morning when she decided to call him, they were planning to meet late that afternoon at a coffee shop. He was her office sweetheart whom she’s trying to flirt with hopelessly.  She picked up her phone and dialed his number. * Ringing* *Ringing* *Still ringing*… and then comes the machines voice “the number you’re trying to reach is unable to answer your call, please try again later.” 

She was disappointed. Ah she thought he would be sleeping late, since it was a Sunday and she thought she will call again in a while. Two hours passed,still no text or call from him,she decided to call again, again she ended up being disappointed hearing the phone lady’s voice. Just then the default trigger in her head got activated, beginning to imagine worst case scenarios.

“What if he is avoiding me?”

“After all he is not interested in me. But he wanted to meet today! “

“Maybe he is seeing someone else”

“Oh! What if something serious has happened to him??”

“Should I contact his friends?”

After fighting multiple battles in her head, she rested the case, decided to wait for his call since there was only few hours left for their coffee shop date. To avoid the distraction she tried to put her phone away, but ended up running to the phone, after every small beep, expecting it to be him. Time passed, still no call or message from him. It was already afternoon, she decided to text him, and picked up her phone, and to her shock she found him online! She sat there staring at the phone ,hoping for him to text, but he just went offline .She was going nuts and was thinking there is a sharp possibility that he is avoiding her and was feeling bad already .

 Just then her phone rang and to her surprise it was him. She was so relieved after hearing that he was in a game with the boys and just now he checked the phone. He hung up after he promised to pick her up in a while. She couldn’t help but laugh and thought how she had made a fool of herself, and got up to get ready. She was so looking forward to this evening.

 

Ha Ha ,Yes, one missed call and multiple story lines in our head. Our minds are trained to think like this, is it?. Have we ever given a thought about a phone call when a person picks up in few rings? No, but when they don’t, in any relationship, we tend to have this weird feeling. After few missed calls we have this adrenaline rush and find a tension prevailing. A lot of people seem to do all of the above, and it’s mainly a fear factor. Okay it’s good to be concerned, but not very extreme for a few missed calls. Stop calling again and again unless it is an emergency or if the person doesn’t return your calls for quite a few days, then there is no harm in checking with their friends or family. But downright only when it’s really necessary .We have to stop having this tele-communicative dilemma, simply because it just drives us crazy. Just to sum up there are only just 3 possibilities: one, the person is genuinely busy and will call back once they are free. Two, either they are stuck in an emergency scenario or any scene which will take a while or worst case, something serious(when they don’t return calls for quite a while, then we can contact their acquaintances). Last, if you find them active online and still they don’t return your calls, it’s just their sharp ignorance and they are just avoiding you.  Being clear with this will save you up a lot of time and put an end to unnecessary curiosity after a missed call.

 

I am sure you would have come across something like this. I could feel myself there and wanted to write about it. So yeah it’s my take on it .Thanks for the read amigos ;)