it's safe to say that in this day and age, most relationships involve a lot of communication done by way of cell phone. ie - text messages. and even though you can spend days and days together and the days apart include copious amounts of hours on the phone just talking endlessly - texting is still a fairly predominate part of how we communicate with the people we're with.
with that said, I had a strange occurrence happened to me today. wherein I was texting with my girlfriend and my phone just stopped wanting to send my messages all together. it was lagging horribly and even though I rebooted my phone 3 times, and did a full ten minute battery pull, it still continued to give me grief. what does one do when such things occur? well. we google machine that shit of course. and google tells me that this can happen sometimes if the conversation box - ie contact inbox - has over 10,000 SMS's. 10,000!! I had to stop and think, and yep. I've never deleted any of our conversations since the beginning back in november. so I attempted to clean up my inbox and my phone froze. I literally had too many texts to even delete them properly. Eventually it got back in working order after having to reboot it more, and delete things slowly and clean up some RAM space. but my curiosity peaked after we had said goodnight and I took a little cyber walk over to my online account with Telus. who, thankfully for my curiosity, actually have the ability to show me how many texts I've exchanged with someone in the past 90 days. care to guess?
well. google was right in their diagnosis of my problem. because since december 12th it has been 14, 575 texts.
(that's as far back as I could go, so the number isn't even entirely accurate)
not even accounting for the time we actually spend together and not texting one another. that's kind of crazy.
but it brings me to a point about communication in a relationship, and how imperative it really is.
I can safely say I've never had a relationship where the conversation and the communication is so easy and so endless. I can't speak enough about it. though really, more honestly, it's just about how I can't speak enough about her :)