I find it interesting how many people try tot take me to task for not picking up the phone and calling more often. Yet these same individuals don’t make any additional effort to do what they’re getting on me about. Now, granted, I do have an issue with calling people. I acknowledge that. I’m bad with calling people. That said, I also let people know that I have an issue with calling people (consistently) and that I’m bad at it. I’ll also throw in a disclaimer about me being pretty good at keeping up with people via email. If you write me, I tend to write back. There are tons of electronic mediums with which to communicate, and we’re hung up on picking up the phone. However, if some one makes an effort to reach out to me, it’s not as though I’m making myself unavailable.

OK, so some will read that and possibly think, “Well damn Lee, in order to catch up with you, I have to do all the work?” and my answer to that is, “Certainly not—but you can’t get mad at me for not doing something you aren’t doing yourself.” Bottom line: a phone is a two-way device. Now if my own mother, who I love dearly, understands that she isn’t likely to have protracted phone conversations with me unless there is something that really needs to be discussed; if she understands that I just don’t like to be on the phone like that, then why can’t everybody else? It’s not like my aim is to dodge some one or to spite some one. And yes, there are even times that I might even stay in touch with some one for a stretch, but it’ll most likely change up at some point. No clever way to end this; Not trying to piss anybody off or slight anybody, I just don’t really feel it.