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Apr. 12th, 2007 12:46 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
One of my friends disappeared maybe a month ago. I met her here. She was having a really tough time the last time I talked to her. Not so much hanging in as hanging on. I got an email from her at the beginning of March, telling me she'd try to be more with it because she wanted to talk to me. She told me I helped her keep going. Then she disappeared. No email responses. No IM's. No other way to get in touch with her. I miss her, but that's not the point. I don't know where she is or if she's ok.
I habitually do this to people. I don't mean to, but for years I was in and out of hospitals and in and out of reality and in and out of apathy. I'd be around, then gone, then back, and they all learned not to worry. That if anything were REALLY wrong someone would tell them. If nobody did, they went about their business. In all honesty I don't think anyone much gave a damn because never did I come back from say...a three month inpatient stay...and find email from people asking whereI was. In fact the only mail I've ever had is from this girl who's gone now. I can say with great honesty that not one of the people who bitched me out when I got back ever tried to talk to me while I was gone. What's that say about me? About them? Doesn't matter.
What matters is I'm on the other end of that situation now and I'm selfish. I'm worried about her, and I miss her, and half of me wonders if it's a game or a test.
I wondered if it was this way that people felt when I disappeared, but they didn't look for me so I suppose not.
I wish she'd come back, even if it was just to tell me she's ok.
I habitually do this to people. I don't mean to, but for years I was in and out of hospitals and in and out of reality and in and out of apathy. I'd be around, then gone, then back, and they all learned not to worry. That if anything were REALLY wrong someone would tell them. If nobody did, they went about their business. In all honesty I don't think anyone much gave a damn because never did I come back from say...a three month inpatient stay...and find email from people asking whereI was. In fact the only mail I've ever had is from this girl who's gone now. I can say with great honesty that not one of the people who bitched me out when I got back ever tried to talk to me while I was gone. What's that say about me? About them? Doesn't matter.
What matters is I'm on the other end of that situation now and I'm selfish. I'm worried about her, and I miss her, and half of me wonders if it's a game or a test.
I wondered if it was this way that people felt when I disappeared, but they didn't look for me so I suppose not.
I wish she'd come back, even if it was just to tell me she's ok.