Do you wish that your parting shot to your first love had been something more poignant and profound than, “F*** you a-hole!” or “take your stupid skateboard with you”?
Sometimes you need to give yourself a little distance to allow yourself the space to carve out something more meaningful and poetic.
And if we didn’t break your heart back in November when we told you about The Last Message Received – in which people submitted the last text messages they received from ex-friends, lovers, and significant others as well as deceased loved ones – we might just do it now.
The Unsent Project has arrived and it’s yet another Instagram lesson in heartbreak.
The idea behind it is to share the text messages that we would love to send to our exes – but would never actually dare to.
“I hated you. I saw you today. I love you.” #unsentproject
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Rora Blue, the brains behind the project, invited others to “State your first love’s name and tell me what you would tell them if you sent them a text message. Also include the color that you think of when you think of your first love.”
“I wanted to reflect social media’s nuanced desire to say something from the heart yet remain anonymous.”
Her website also claims that the collage is a “tangible representation of the fearlessness to speak one’s mind that people have when sitting behind a screen”. Which I think, in essence means here we have the paper copy of what scaredy-cats were too afraid to say in the flesh.
She compiled the first 2,000 participants into a collage, printing out their words and organising them by colours chosen.
Rora Blue
Initially her goal was simply to find out which colour people saw love in. However, after finding that love covered the whole rainbow, she wanted to share the words people chose to say in secret.
Having received over 25,000 unsent texts that scale the full spectrum of post-break-up emotion, Rora plans to use the remaining submissions for future projects.
Many of the sentiments chose romantic and heart-wrenchingly sad words like “You use [sic] to kiss me so deep I forgot whose air I was breathing” to the more embittered – but no less delightful – “I miss you but I hope karma fucks you up soon.”
Because sometimes, time can be a healer. While other times, even after enough of it has passed, you still just want to say “U were a creepy ass person.”
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