Busy Signal

Rare these days that you call someone & they actually have a “busy signal”. With technology where it is these days your call will either go to voicemail so you can leave a message--or it will simply ring under the “call waiting” feature.

People on the other hand seem to use the “busy signal” often when it comes to expression & the dreaded “one step to far within their emotionally charged personal bubble” conversations. I have heard many times that people push you away to see how much you care to come back. Or due to their past it is hard to open up. You know--I get that. I really do.

When is it enough though? How many times must someone prove that they care? How long will the past haunt you?

Trying to answer these questions for someone else would be as difficult to near impossible as trying to measure the pain of people who’s family died in the holocaust or slavery. Especially since some people even now tend to “overlook” that these events happened or are even conversation worthy. Measuring another’s pain just can’t be done.

My true question is at what point do the people that are willing to be open in spite of their fears, past situations/disappointments/loss of family members/loss of loved ones/etc…at what point do the people that are willing to not only brave the fire of stepping within your bubble but brave the insecurity of allowing you to step within theirs…at what point has it been “long enough”? At what point has it been “too much effort”? At what point do they dial another number that may not always have a “busy signal”?