So tonight I was chatting to my better half(I hope she uses the same terminology about me :) ) and knowing she had a rough day and that she was having some good banter with her followers I said:
“ lol ill leave you to g+...pirate time :)”
What I should really have said was:
“lol ill leave you to g+, you’ve had a rough day go have some fun honey...pirate time :)”
Amazing how the injection of a few words can really remove any ambiguity from a statement. Now G+, Skyrim, restoring a car, anything really could have been inserted here. The problem was that I let the statement be far more open to interpretation than I should have. My intent was known to me, but did I convey that with the message I sent. Maybe, maybe not. This isn’t just on g+ either, in a world where shortened methods of communication are overtaking the more traditional we are moving towards more and more abbreviated forms of communication, SMS, Twitter are good examples here.
Email even, how often do we send 1 word emails? Responses, comments are condensed down to a few words. How often do you go back and read the things you said and wonder what point or opinion you were trying to make. Sometimes I feel that the art of conversation is being lost, vocabularies are shrinking. I use the google voice plugin a lot just so I can say more in SMS, having to type long messages on a phone keyboard is painful and VR doesn’t understand Scottish.
And so enters my own introspection and partly self-actualizing. Stop being in such a hurry. Take the extra thirty seconds to write something that is a little more coherent and less open to interpretation. Before the Internet and the technology of today people took the time to write letters, to compose thoughts. Why should that be any different today? It’s only delivery that is virtually instantaneous.
I’m sure everyone will be better off for it, I will try and avoid hurting some one's feelings or annoying someone unnecessarily.
“ lol ill leave you to g+...pirate time :)”
What I should really have said was:
“lol ill leave you to g+, you’ve had a rough day go have some fun honey...pirate time :)”
Amazing how the injection of a few words can really remove any ambiguity from a statement. Now G+, Skyrim, restoring a car, anything really could have been inserted here. The problem was that I let the statement be far more open to interpretation than I should have. My intent was known to me, but did I convey that with the message I sent. Maybe, maybe not. This isn’t just on g+ either, in a world where shortened methods of communication are overtaking the more traditional we are moving towards more and more abbreviated forms of communication, SMS, Twitter are good examples here.
Email even, how often do we send 1 word emails? Responses, comments are condensed down to a few words. How often do you go back and read the things you said and wonder what point or opinion you were trying to make. Sometimes I feel that the art of conversation is being lost, vocabularies are shrinking. I use the google voice plugin a lot just so I can say more in SMS, having to type long messages on a phone keyboard is painful and VR doesn’t understand Scottish.
And so enters my own introspection and partly self-actualizing. Stop being in such a hurry. Take the extra thirty seconds to write something that is a little more coherent and less open to interpretation. Before the Internet and the technology of today people took the time to write letters, to compose thoughts. Why should that be any different today? It’s only delivery that is virtually instantaneous.
I’m sure everyone will be better off for it, I will try and avoid hurting some one's feelings or annoying someone unnecessarily.
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