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I screen my calls generally. Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people. I'm a bit shy and get anxious so if I'm not in the mood then I don't take it. What I hate is people calling me back later and then letting me know they had called earlier and "why didn't you pick up?" when I don't want to have to lie but also don't want to be blunt and have to say, "you see, I don't always feel like answering the phone just because it's ringing!". My mom does that, no screening, no matter what she's doing (having a meal, chatting to me, whatever). I hate it.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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