The Bipolar Otaku

About eight years ago, when I was a freshman in college and a pledge in my fraternity, I was given the task to call up alumni. It was a push for the chapter to get back in touch with brothers who have long since graduated from the university. And one phone call still sticks in my head. This phone call actually made it through (somewhat of a rarity) and I talked to him. And he told me, in no uncertain terms, that he was done with the fraternity, that he had his time there, that his time has passed, that he has more important things in his life now, that he does not want to be bothered by me.

That phone call is one of the handful of memorable phone calls that I have had in my life. Why this one? Why a phone call with some guy I never met? I remember it ever time I feel like someone has decided they are done with me, that voice and that phrase "I have found more important things in my life" and it so bothers me. But at least when he said it, that I knew for certain that I was never going to talk to that person again. And that is so much better than just hoping I'll get to talk with him or her just one more time.