Fighting for attention
For people who spend a lot of time alone like me, paying attention to small details is almost always a given. Our thoughts are always occupying our minds, going through every word of a text, analyzing and overthinking it. That is what happened to me with my friend earlier. Attention from my friends is a hard thing to get. I'm a person who listen more than they talk so I would expect that they would lend me an ear for a second however that is not the case. Our friends use the time that they are silent and you're talking as a break to check their phones. It is something I've noticed, I would tell my friend something today and the next day she will come with the news saying she just heard of it from someone else. There are also times when I would stop talking because I felt like I was talking to myself and lo and behold, they would start a whole different topic when they notice no one is talking. This might seem light to them, something to laugh over or give the "...