Communication: Are We Missing What Could Have Been?
Communication today is a series of short missives, texts, instant messages, tweets, or if we’re feeling verbose, emails. Â And none of us has figured out quite how to do it: either we self-edit like our lives depend on it and parse every letter of a person’s response, or we don’t edit at all – saying whatever we feel and then “unsaying” what we wish we hadn’t said with a simple “J/K.”
What if we were more honest with each other, turning off the self-editing and being real with each other in every medium – from the instant message to the text to the in-person conversation? Is that too risky? Too scary? Too unreasonable?
I say text what is on the heart, it is very important to do that. You will never know if you missed out on something that could have being great because you were to afraid to say something. go for it.
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I say text what is on the heart, it is very important to do that. You will never know if you missed out on something that could have being great because you were to afraid to say something. go for it.