We, consultants, practically live in a virtual world - emails, phone calls, text messages. Work around the clock and constant change of cities, hotels, suitcases does not leave much time for a face-to-face relationships with other people than our clients. So we use our creativity and maintain our long distance love lives via texts.
Who does have time for emails these days? I stop reading them after the fifth sentence.
Modern marvels of the cell phone technology created an easier way to express our feelings - through signs of smiley/sad faces, abbreviations OMG, TTL, and pictures sent via MMS.
Some of us, like my Bostonian friend, are able to even "date" over text messages communicating with several "significant others" all over the globe. A bartender she met in Colorado sends her kisses every morning; a surfer from California cheers her up with his careless hair and fit body in a surfing outfit; and of course a boyfriend in Europe who surrounds her with his eternal love.
How did we survive the dark ages when an iPhone was not an option? OMG, we actually had to face a person and express our mixed emotions of anger, happiness, tears, or joy. We had to tell our "sorries" and explain why we thought that breaking up is a better option than staying in this pointless relationship. We had to do many things.... that somehow now we forgot they had a meaning.
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