"I miss you"

I don’t know how people can say it without meaning it. Like, maybe since I am the one being away, I feel it all the time. I mean every “I miss you” comments on Instagram, I mean every “I miss you” posts written here. I miss almost everyone all the time. Some more intensely than the other – my siblings, my aunt and my nieces.

I didn’t know it could hurt so bad when someone says “I miss you @madihahh” and later admitted that “I couldn’t think of anything else to put as a caption.” It pricked my eyes. Maybe it’s just me being too sensitive or I don’t know.

The only ones I believe truly care for me are my family members and no one else. I thank god for each and every one of them. The extent of which that they would go to make me happy is out of this world. They’ll call me when I didn’t call them, they’ll text me when I went missing for days not responding to discussions in the family WhatsApp group, they appreciate my presence and sense my absence.

I don’t think I mean that much to any other friends, even (especially) some I called my best friends.