Recently, an old friend texted me out of nowhere asking how I was. I replied that I was doing great and asked how he was. Seven hours later, he responded saying he was good too and asked about my life. I told him about my life briefly and asked about his but then he just stopped replying. He didn’t even open my last message and the conversation ended there.
What confuses me is that he was the one who texted me first. If I had started the conversation and he ignored me because he didn't want to talk to me I would understand but since he reached out, why stop responding right after asking me a question? I don’t think I said anything boring or off-putting that could have killed the conversation.
We aren’t close anymore so I’m not taking it personally but after looking into it I realized a lot of people do the exact same thing and I just want to know why. If he didn’t want to talk, why text me in the first place? And if he did want to talk, why disappear?