Saved SMS Messages
Most of the time the SMS messages we either send or receive are to organise our lives. “Let’s meet at 7pm at the movies”. “Running late. Be there soon.”
However, occasionally we get SMS messages that we treasure and those are the ones that we never delete from our inbox. When Lelak and I first got together, we sent each other lots of lovey dovery SMS messages. I kept almost every single one of them and would read them when I was feeling down or upset. Then, one horrible day four years into our relationship, my phone ate them. I have not a single one of them left. For me it was like having my love letters destroyed. I still mourn their lost.
Unfortunately, I think Lelak also lost her collection of our love SMS messages, including the one from our friend Michelle when we first got together basically telling us that we would go blind if we didn’t come up for air. Since our relationship developed slowly over time, there was never a day that we could pinpoint as the day we got together and thus have anniversary celebrations. Our anniversary is sometime in July, but we would celebrate it on the day that Michelle sent that SMS. Now with the loss of that SMS and our terrible memory on exactly what date that message was sent, we have no idea when to celebrate our anniversary.
Today in my SMS inbox, I have only one lovely dovey SMS from Lelak which simply says “P.S. I love you.” The rest are all important information like the password to Lelak’s laptop and where my parents live (they keep moving and I gave up remembering exactly where they live about 8 years ago).
So, what is in your SMS inbox on your mobile phone? Do you have romantic SMS message from your loved one? Or from a secret affair? What secrets would be revealed if someone happened to take a peek in there?
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hmmm… I have a bad habit of just deleting every SMS from my phone out of sheer laziness. Our hard drive died recently so I lost all saved emails etc. Ummm… I guess when it comes down to it, most of my ’saved messages’ are in my head (not sure they’re very safe there). Like when hubby told me that though he’d dated a bit over the years we weren’t together, he’d never found anyone as wonderful as me.
(pause for a gooey awwwwww)
Actually, that’s about all I can think of right now
I’d say that electronic messages cause loss of this sort of stuff… except that I lose paper even faster 
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May 14th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I save messages until my phone starts complaining about it… and I only save them because I’m too lazy to go delete them. Right now, I’ve got a few messages from my daughter and a few from my “adopted” daughter. Just nice little notes. But if they disappeared, I’d still know they love me.
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I kept my fun sms’s from my bois until the mobile threw a tanty and deleted them for me…or the CDMA network shut down - whichever came first!
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May 15th, 2008 at 2:41 am
we also were unsure of what to do about an anniversary date. we knew it was ‘in’ July.
So we basically added together our birth days, mine is the 11th hers the 15th.
and now our Anniversary is July 26th. makes it really easy to remember.
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Riayn I absolutely love this post.
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I have ‘Happy NY Mummy! xx’ from Moo on her first NYE out with friends. And tons of ‘Hey MUM! You lost the game!’ and variations. And a dirty dirty limerick from one of my girlfriends.
No lovely dovey ones I am afraid. And that makes me a little sad!
May 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Not an SMS thing but similar…
My girl and I found each other on an internet dating site (yeah yeah, I know) and for the first few weeks before we got up the guts to make a real date, we exchanged emails, on practically everything. It was too soon to be lovey dovey of course, but it was intimate and special all the same.
Just before our one year anniversary my hard drive died and of course I had no backup, so it took my precious saved emails with it.
Knowing how distraught I was losing this part of our beginnings together, my girl gave me a CD for our anniversary that had all the emails on it that she found from her computer, plus she’d hunted down all our correspondence from the dating website and put that on there too.
From someone who swears she’s a non-romantic, she certainly came through that day. It was better than any present than she could have ever bought me.