I feel like our generation is more patient than ever. From waiting for the bus to waiting in line to not smoking to avoiding social media, we are impatient. This is great. It is what makes us human. However, we are now faced with the challenge of taking care of ourselves. We know we are no longer children, and we are ready to mature into adults. Our bodies are in our charge, and it is up to us to take care of them.
The thing is, we are not always conscious of it, but we are often very aware of our bodies. As we grow older, our bodies start to lose the ability to communicate with us. We have become too lazy to tell our bodies to do what we want them to do. We are tired. We are sick. We forget. We are old. We are lazy. We don’t want to be bothered.
The thing is, though, you can’t force your body to do things. It doesn’t work that way. It’s like trying to get your car’s engine to start. You just have to sit back, relax, and let it do what it needs to do. We are in charge of our bodies, and the fact that we are still in charge is what makes them special.
Its a bit like when we use the patient emoji here. Its a bit like when you say “you need to go to the bathroom. It’s urgent.” It’s a bit like when you ask for someone’s phone number, and it takes a minute or two to get it. Its like just saying it to us. Its like saying it in a way that makes us want to go.
This is exactly the kind of thing we hear on Reddit and in the comments section of our website. People are afraid to ask us for our phone numbers simply because we’ve never gotten it. If they’ve never gotten it, they don’t want to know and then it’s hard to get a hold of when you do ask.
We have our own personal experience of getting our phone numbers. A few years ago we asked a friend we had not talked to for a phone number, and she gave it to us and told us never to give it out again. We decided we would just keep our number, which we always used to call when we needed to get a hold of a person, and we never gave it out again. We went on to set up a phone number for ourselves, but in the end we never did.
A couple years ago we also did the same thing. We asked our friend to give us her phone, which she did. We then told her to keep it and never give it out again. We were both surprised at how quickly the need to keep our numbers gone as a coping mechanism went away.
It doesn’t seem to have gone away. It’s just that we haven’t seen them in a while. This new number is now an integral part of our daily communications. We now regularly call, text, and email each other, and it has become a part of our lives that we can’t even tell anyone we don’t have.
The main reason we have our numbers is because we have to keep them, but we also have a few other reasons. We still use our numbers as an emergency contact number for our cat, as well as for our kids’ school and other events.