This year I've found that a quick and easy way to contact my eldest brother is by iMessaging him. This has stopped the annoying delay or lack of response which texting him always brought. However while our exchanges have been going fine, I noticed that my two most recent messages where marked 'not delivered'.
My first thought seemed to be that my most recent messages had become of less importance such as about a tv series on Netflix or how good/bad I thought a new album was. With the icon 'not delivered' next to my two messages, I had the initial thought that he had seen that I was becoming all too regular at messaging him using this service and now the quality was more than the quality. So I thought that my brother must've actively switched his iMessage service off in order to escape my spam.
Before I sent him an iMessage reading "Have you turned your messaging off you twat?", I heard an inner voice remind myself that I would stop jumping to be the VICTIM all the time.
So instead I thought "ok, maybe his phone had a funny turn and I'm sure he'd love to hear from his brother very day"
Even though I was actively trying to deceive my victim mind, it worked and I even thought "he'll have been bombing down the motorway after work and so his phone just didn't catch the messages"
I think this counts as one successful, optimistic view rather than thinking the world hates me. Even if I was right first time (Stop it!) then at least I filtered it well back to a positive.
Well done me.
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