(at other person’s e-mail): I know you are wrong, and I must tell you all about it. In a nice way, of course.
(Types e-mail. Looks at it.): Really? You need to send this e-mail? Why can’t this wait until you see this person in person?
(Discards e-mail.): FINE. But this is really going to bug me now. I must now go blog about my success in realizing that something I might have sent via e-mail might possibly have been misconstrued as bitchy (which in a way, it was, and it’s also ancient history, so why bother?) and might have set up hurt feelings for a person I haven’t seen in years.
If only more people had the foresight to think before they e-mail/text/ speak, relationships might be better? How many people have ruined relationships due to not thinking before opening their mouth.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus
It’s nice in theory, anyway.
~wavygirl~
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