Increasingly, people are becoming very clear about their communication preferences. When it comes to cellphones, most say they don’t want to answer a call. Instead, they’d prefer a text. And if they happen to miss your call, they do not by any means necessary want you to leave a voice message.
People view them as a waste of time, passé. But a series of voice messages between a granddaughter and her grandmother prove that there may be a lost art of recording our voices for loved ones.
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Pailey Baczek's grandmother saved her voicemails from the time she was 3 until she was 17.
Baczek, from Massachusetts, recently shared a video of the voice messages she left for her grandmother over 14 years, Good Morning America reported. They span from the time she was 3 or 4 to when she turned 17.
The sentimental nature of the messages and the bond between grandmother and granddaughter has made the video Baczek shared on TikTok, complete with images of the two, go viral. Not to mention people were touched by the way the messages changed over the years.
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When Baczek shared the messages with TikTok, the video went viral.
Until Baczek shared the video last year, she didn’t know her grandmother had saved those voicemails. In the messages, the young woman details everything from her new scooter at around age 3 or 4 to the job she secured at Subway as a teen.
The now 22-year-old said she shared the video on TikTok so she could have a place to save it. She likely couldn’t have anticipated that it would garner more than 3.3 million views.
'My grandmother has always been like my next door neighbor and someone I can always come to for anything,' the young woman explained.
Her grandmother, Joan Johnson, saved the messages as a keepsake. "She's my only granddaughter, so she's really, really important to me. And saving those voice messages, I just thought it would be a nice thing to do. And she'd always be able to hear them," Johnson told Good Morning America.
In the voice messages, you can hear how much these two mean to each other. But in case it’s not clear, Baczek explained the closeness they share. "We lived in the same house together … so my grandmother has always been like my next door neighbor and someone I can always come to for anything," she said.
Baczek said it's important to let the people we love hear our voices.
She also shared her belief in the importance of letting our friends and family members hear our voices.
"Voices are super important to listen to, you know, it captures that one little moment," she said. "It really encompasses like the person themselves."
Johnson thought the video represented another important lesson about life and relationships. "I think the little things are really precious. We should all hold them dear," she shared.
