the longest 2 minutes of your life.

you know when youre having a really intense conversation with someone, or you send a risky text, and you want them to respond right away? the two minutes they take to respond are the longest two minutes of your life.

well not literally, since every minute is exactly 60 seconds and the seconds are always at the same length, but you know what i mean.

so youre sitting there, on your bed, or your couch, or your floor, or wherever the heck you happen to be. and you look at your phone every second, hoping to see the screen light up. and every other one second you click one of the buttons, forcing the screen to light up, checking to see if maybe you missed the little buzz that alerts you of a new message.

after a minute of glancing and clicking at your phone, you open up your sent box to make sure the message actually sent. theres nothing more annoying than waiting for a text back from someone and then finally giving up and deciding they arent going to text back, only to realize that your "sent" message never actually sent.

so you make sure it sent. and it did. but they STILL havent responded. it's been a minute and a half. youre getting scared now, because it feels like its been forever. maybe they have fallen asleep, or have gone to the store, or got into the shower, or done something that has kept them from responding.

its been a minute and 50 seconds now. and you draw a mental picture of them, giving them a mental punishment for ignoring you.

at a minute 54, you open up the message, debating whether or not to send it again. would that be annoying? is that why they stopped texting back? are they annoyed? do they hate you? oh no, what have you done?...

you move your finger away from the send button 4 seconds later, deciding that you must have done something wrong and clearly they do not want to talk to you any more.

its been a minute and 59 seconds, and youre about to turn off your phone in disappointment. you will wait another second before smashing down the power button. they have one second to respond. its been waaay too long. or so it feels.

2 minutes. you move to turn your phone off. but as your finger touches the power key, the screen lights up.

THEY'VE TEXTED YOU BACK!