You’re Right, I’m Not Interested, I’m Just Bored

Sophia An
Letters to Nowhere
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4 min readSep 2, 2020

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Quarantine has done all kinds of things to our psyche. For me, it’s brought out one of my worst habits — my tendency to date selfishly. I found myself recently admitting that the guy I’d been texting wasn’t someone I was interested in — he was just someone that was there.

After my last disastrous attempt at dating.

I was trying to make myself feel better with a rebound. Everyone loves a good roller coaster of emotions brought on by low crushing self esteem am I right? With this in mind I started talking to, let’s call him George. George was someone who worked in the same building as me albeit not at the same company. George and I see each other quite frequently because there’s one cafeteria. At first I wasn’t sure how I felt about his attentions — quarantine still makes me wary of most social interactions. Yes, I sometimes come into the office but I stay pretty much only in my office space.

George and I had spoken previous to this year but nothing serious. I only had his number because we both had each other on Discord. George was telling me about…

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Sophia An
Letters to Nowhere

Writer, artist, book lover. Shakespeare said “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.” Someone help me be the flower.