Words are important to me. Like using just the right amount of salt and pepper, the right word enhances what I want to convey and the wrong one absolutely destroys the message.
For example: if someone is having a really bad day and I want to comment, how do I say what I am thinking as concisely as possible without losing the oomph behind the words?
The reasons for being concise in today’s social networking world are numerous, but the feelings are just as deep and broad as ever.
My first thoughts are things like: poor baby, or I’m sorry sweet pea, but these are too personal for public consumption.
Next come: that’s awful, or oh no, but these are reruns of other’s words and I am loathe to do that.
Finally come the alliterative ones, but it turns out that there is really nothing alliterative that says what I want to say and goes with Wednesday.
So I scrap concise and refraining from public personal declarations; I stop worrying about repeating what others have already said and even give up on clever things like alliteration or some other kind of tricky combination…
Then I write a whole thot about it and hope the feelings are understood.
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