I don’t know sweetheart. Maybe he does. Maybe some nights he misses you so much he can’t sleep. Maybe he tosses and he turns and he picks up his phone and thinks about dialling your number. Maybe when he gets drunk on the weekends he calls his new girlfriend by your name.
Maybe he still thinks about you every day. Or, every other day. Maybe he regrets ending it. Or he wishes he hadn’t let you go so easily. Maybe he still has your t-shirt. Your scarf. Something else you left behind. It doesn’t smell like you anymore, but he thinks it does.
Maybe he still talks to his friends about you. Dreams about you. Wishes you would get in touch. Maybe he wonders how you are, whether you’ve found love. Maybe he hopes that you haven’t.
So yes, maybe he does miss you. Maybe he misses you with every fibre of his being.
But maybe he doesn’t.
And probably, he doesn’t.
In any case, you owe it to yourself to stop living in a world of maybe’s. You deserve so much more.
Sweetheart, stop chasing a ghost. You deserve so much more.
Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series.
““Too much,” she said, “I loved him too much. But I think that’s the only way to love someone.”— Sue Zhao
Artist’s Drive and Artist’s Palette, Death Valley National Park, California