Hey

I've made a funny realization recently. A lot of people text me for a lot of reasons, and I can usually tell who it is without looking a the contact at the top of the screen. Different people just initiate texts in different ways. Some people will just come out and say whats on their mind, some will skirt around it with small talk and vagueness and some always start the same; with a little "Hi" or "fonts" or "are u up?". And almost automatically I respond with "Hey". My mom always used to tell me "Hey (hay) is for horses" but I never really cared about that and I my mind it's a pretty solid response. I find that 9/10 people text other people with something in mind, not just for random conversation, though it may deteriorate into that. So when someone texts me, "Hey" I think, carries just the right amount of casually "Hello" and conservative concerned "What's going on?". It just feels right to say to someone who clearly is texting you for a reason. In slightly related news I've been texting "hey" to a lot of people recently, or rather, more people than I wish I had to, about all kinds of stuff. There's been some close calls, some near falls, but thankfully I haven't F#*ked up that bad yet (I think).

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy texting people, it's how I stay connected to everyone 521 miles away. But it also happens to be my least favorite from of contact behind Email so it makes me happy that a lot of my friends have bit the bullet and skyped with me for hours at a time, makes my day really. But sometimes there are people around or people are busy and skype can't be committed to so for those times I'm perfectly fine with just kicking back and texting people.

And all these conversations I've been having really gets me thinking about myself, everyone around me and what really matters. They involve laughter, happy laughter, nervous laughter and others, they include tears, happy tears and sad tears, hysterics of varying degrees and some semi mental breakdowns, so pretty par for the course of my friends as it goes.

One thing I've enjoyed about these mostly stressful conversations though is the fact that I learn things about people that I could have gone and entire life time and not picked up on, some times for better sometimes, yeah, probably didn't need to know that. But the fact that most of my friends trust me enough to tell me what's up after just a "hey" that really speaks to their mental insanity and for the life of me I cannot figure out what is wrong with them... Just kidding, it makes my day that people want to talk and hopefully this post will just leave me with more people wondering what I meant by "most of my friends" or "semi-mental breakdowns" and that's' half the fun of this blog, listening to random songs, writing random words and waiting while they try and figure out how the hell my head works (spoiler alert: pretty confusing).

So yeah, you told me to write one about you and this was the closest I wanted to come, hope it cheers you up a little.

Hasta la proxima!

Matt Raul Fonts