Connections

This Fish can write:

What do I mean to you? It’s not something we’re cool about asking each other. It’s something we’re supposed to read between the lines, figure out through the context of conversations, emails and facial expressions.

You make my life better.
I think you’re funny.
We are temporary.

An unreturned phone call and sideways glances may read, You’re replaceable. While a tender pat on the head from the same person can say, To the moon and back.

Body language, rarely as accommodating as a mood ring, doesn’t always tell you what you need to know. And because, once we leave childhood, we no longer allow ourselves the naiveté to ask, How much do you love me? so much of it is left to guessing and intuition and sometimes even hope.

And sadly, in interpreting our worth to the people we care about most, far too much gets lost in the translation.