umm, is that what u heard? cause that's not what i said...

let me start off by saying this is not the rant of a bitter woman lol. i am not bitter. i am confused.

*insert puzzled face*

i just got off the phone with a girlfriend, whom i called because i wasn't sure how to respond to a picture mail i had just received from a former (short-lived) beau. i didn't want to be mean, and since i knew i was already predisposed lol, i thought i would call for a fresh opinion. the message had no words, just a button-up-vest-and-tie-in-the-front-seat-of-his-car-complete-with-shades picture, sans a smile. albeit a nice (somewhat-posed) shot, my question was what was i supposed to do with it and how was i to reply? it was unsolicited and we hadn't spoken in quite a while. we ended, not on the friendliest of notes, and while we've conversed (uneasy small talk) here and there, i'd made it quite clear that i had no interests in rekindling anything. at least i thought i had. and even when i was (notice the italics) open to the thought, when asked what he could do to make it better, among the items discussed was no mention of a text-messaged picture of him in his sunday best...with no words.  


now - am i over-reacting? maybe. and am i trying to embarrass him? absolutely not. after all, i didn't use his name. but this does make me wonder if i was speaking the venus language that apparently men don't comprehend. you know the mars/venus thing, right? i remember growing up hearing the phrase men are from mars and women are from venus, but i never really gave it any credence - until now. and it's not just this recent situation - there's plenty more. now i'm sure there are gazillions of self-help books and dr. phil look-a-like's that will have prescriptions and formulas for how men and women communicate, but i'm really not up for a lot of philosophizing today. in fact, i'm not even writing to solicit a solution. i'm just simply typing out loud, trying to figure out how to respond to this message, when i feel like i've already responded many times before... different question, but same answer. but if i say 'up' and you hear 'down,' then maybe we really are from different planets.

...maybe.

either way... there's another expression that goes it ain't where you came from, it's where you're going. if men really are from mars, and women really are from venus - then hopefully this last expression is really true as well :)


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