Life hack #8: Rename their contact in your phone
Life hack #8: Rename their contact in your phone
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It's possible that you're not quite ready to delete a whole chat history with the person that you're getting over, especially if it's fresh. And I know some people are aggressive, like sure they will delete everything, delete all the photos. I'm different. I have a bit of, um, I want to like document them in like the, you know, the archives of my life somewhere.
So sometimes for me, I, you know, out of sight out of mind is good enough. Um, for things like that, but one of the best life hacks I've found to remind yourself of how you feel on the inside about a person and how they've made you feel is to go into their contact on your phone and hit. Edit. And rename them.
So let's just say their name was Bob. Okay. Hypothetically you backspace Bob, and you write something that's meaningful to you that will be helpful to see if that person ever texts you again. You could use the phrase, he cheated on me. You could use the phrase, he didn't treat me well, whatever it is that you need to remind yourself, some people can use, you know, just bad [00:01:00] emojis, like a poop emoji.
Like you could just pick, you know, be creative, but you can relabel it to something even as simple as he didn't choose you. And that way every time that they text you, if they do, those will be the words you see before you take in what they have to share via text. And not only that, if you ever do have nostalgia and go scrolling through your old chat history, while at the top, it's going to be like, you know, he's a dickhead as you're scrolling through. I'll be like, oh yeah, he is a dickhead, you know. So this life hack has worked for me so much, so that it's almost like a ritual. Whenever I have an issue or break up with someone, I like rename it to be like, you know, don't go back. And then like, you know, that way, if they're texting me from "don't go back", i'm like, okay, there's clearly a reason I said that to myself one day.
So, you know, cause sometimes when you get some distance from pain, you can forget about how someone treated you or how it made you feel, you can, you know, heal. And I think if you rename it in your phone, you will at least be leaving yourself a note. That's like, hey, watch out. Don't trust them again.
You know, and a true story. I [00:02:00] once had to relabel a guy's contact info to say "his words are meaningless". Like that was the name of his contact. And then when he texted me something like, you know, a couple of weeks later, something about missing me, whatever I open up a text from "his words are meaningless" that said, like I miss you.
hey I just kind of like scoffed to myself. Cause I was like, that's kind of funny. It's like, hey, don't believe him, but this is what he said, you know? Um, so it is, it's a helpful reminder from you to you. Uh, in times when you're stuck, so.
