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Knock Knock, Your “Friend” is Calling

Pandemic Phone Calls

Have you been contacted, by anyone from your past lately? If Yes, how did you react?

The pandemic has been a very strange yet mysterious, timeline. There has been so much happening ever since the year 2020 started. Much to anybody’s surprise, or my attention and lack thereof, I was accidentally contacted by someone who assumed to impersonate themself as my best friend whom I had no idea or awareness about!?

I believe many people are bored, and probably have nothing to do on their hands these days. Therefore, its time for them to get out of their mundane everyday boring lives to contact someone whom they severed ties with, consciously. And be like,

Hey!! Wazzuppp! Do you remember me!

It was just another day, I was sitting in my chair thinking of ideas to write about when I suddenly got a text from a person whose number wasn’t in my contact list. Hmmm, who this maybe! was I exclaimed calmly. I opened my Whatsapp and there was this guy, claiming to be an old pal of mine, just mysteriously popping up from the abyss, to say Hello! and then some.

So I decided to have a quick chat with this old pal of mine. Because I thought to be nice, and welcoming should I say. So I messaged a few hellos, and he kept on insisting to talk about my personal affairs and struggles, which I thought kind of a nuisance to begin with.

“Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.” ― Roberto Bolano

Little did I know, a simple no could become so drastically annoying and irritating. Talking about your struggles with someone, who isn’t necessarily your well-wisher, is something hard to do but much harder to avoid when the same person is being kind of annoying and a crowd chaser, to begin with, bouncing one sentence from here to there stirring chaos and confusion where they see fit.

The conversation took a drastic turn when I asked why didn’t he call me earlier, why now!? to which our kind and honorable speaker replied with a sad tale, an excuse to cover up the question, and bounced it on me to why didn’t I call him; which is honestly weird because I frankly didn’t care to call him.

We haven’t seen each other in 6 years, perhaps and whenever I would make plans with him. He would never show up, so perhaps I stopped caring for people who aren’t worth their word.

This got under his skin, and it burned him and then his real face came out, the way I tackled his abusive language and behavior is also something if I showed you the screenshot, you would mind the entire conversation that I had with him, to be a waste of time, and it would infuriate anyone who is just trying to say a simple no.

“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.” ― Giordano Bruno

It took the guy, an entire night to evaluate the entire conversation and in the morning — the douchebag left a self-righteous note and blocked me, which is kind of funny and ironic that I never really cared but it’s a good story that most of us really should avoid during this pandemic to not happen to us at all.

Your personal well-being matters above all else, so avoid all these factors.

Because honestly, I would advise everyone to avoid such forms of negativity and negative people who will contact you in these dire times, just to catch a glimpse if you have it all together.

Instead, be with the people who are around you and also far from you — those that care and cherish you. There are many things you can catch these days, besides Covid-19, and people’s ignorance and bad taste are one of them.

Thus, Stay Blessed and Stay Safe — Try to engage yourself in meaningful conversations, with people or perhaps even small talk with the right ones.

And Don’t even pick up that call, that is gonna doom us all.