In the moment he asked you text him, he was excited about the prospect of receiving a text message from you in the foreseeable future.
He loved the introductory conversation and believed that there was much more to you.
In asking you to text him, he was inspired by curiosity.
There was a powerful craving within him to uncover what it was about you that was intriguing him.
When you later texted him, his excitement for you was no longer anywhere as potent as it had been during his introductory conversation with you.
He was not in that rapturous moment any longer.
Since that introductory conversation, life has caught on.
He has been out with friends, gotten lost on social media, gone to the gym, etc.
A lot has happened since that introductory conversation, even if it hasn’t technically been that long since it happened.
He is no longer in the moment.
He returned to the hustle and bustle of his personal life.
In reading your text message, he wondered about texting you back.
For a few moments, he remembered the conversation he had with you that led to his request that you text him.
Yet, he realized that he wasn’t experiencing the same excitement and curiosity as he was when he had that introductory conversation with you.
This made it difficult for him to reply right away.
The enthusiasm was in short supply.
Due to this, he left your message on seen.
There wasn’t a sense of urgency to reply to it, especially when there were other priorities he wanted to attend to.
More pressingly, he had to take his dog out for a walk, take his car to the shop, meet friends for a drink, go shopping for a new smartphone, etc.
Other priorities.
For now, replying to your text message is at the bottom of his to-do list.
Many girls that like a guy make a colossal blunder at this juncture.
They text the guy again.
This makes it appear as though you are too eager to hear back from him and you have nothing better to do.
It doesn’t leave a good impression.
Sadly, it doesn’t stop here.
When she doesn’t receive a reply to her second message, she sends a third.
This time, she isn’t as kind.
She is uncontrollably emotional, chastising him for leaving her previous two messages on seen.
This makes a bad situation worse.
When she does this, she has sent a clear message to the guy that she is pushy and needy.
This encourages the guy that much more to refrain from replying to her text message.
Don’t be this girl.
Rather, go about living your life.
Go out and get tasks done.
Exercise.
Go on a hike.
Join an interest group and meet up with like-minded people around an interest you love or you are curious about.
Basically, keep yourself busy.
When you keep yourself busy, you avoid the temptation to send him subsequent texts.
Instead of worrying yourself about why he left your text message on seen, you are too busy living your life to keep thinking about it.
This is the attitude that stops you from making the drastic mistake that lots of girls make in your position.
Leaving him alone, sends a powerful message to him.
It says that you aren’t intent on chasing him.
It says that the ball is now in his court.
This message makes you come off as someone with a life and a backbone.
Someone with self-respect who is worth pursuing.
When he realizes that you aren’t panicking by sending him additional text messages, it’s possible that his curiosity about you piques again, leading him to finally reply to your text message.