We're living in times where a misplaced emoticon can spell havoc, where a sentence without a smiley is plain rude, where a statement ending with full stops rather than cliffhangers is curt. One just cannot decide once and for all because the way everyone perceives these yellow circular faces is different. A devil to one is an angel to another- or more appropriately- one's shades-wearing-smiley is another's smiley-a-la-attitude. How am I supposed to know if your statement full of exclamations is full of anger, or eagerness, or adrenaline, or happiness or simply a lubricant-slick keypad?
We've started reading less and hearing more. We hear what we expect and what is pre-determinedly going on in our minds. A punctuation mark- a comma, a question mark and more importantly, a full stop is not shouting at you or abusing you or poking fun at you. It is simply saying that it is organizing the statement in the correct syntactical form- NOT putting an end to your relationship. It is not asking you to shut up or imagine the person insultingly shrugging shoulders at you.
So how about this? Let's not use a joint family of full stops, these things like to be left alone. Let's not hyperventilate and leave that one exclamation mark alone. Let's not over-imagine what the words are trying to say. Let's not read between the lines when there is nothing to be read. Let's not grow suspicious at the hideous-looking "Okay.", for all you know it could be a simple nod in the physical face-to-face world. Say what you want to say, as you want things to be told to you, because people out there are going paranoid scrutinizing what you say. And I am going mad writing one explanatory sentence for every previous sentence i wrote explaining myself.
Keep :-) ing
We've started reading less and hearing more. We hear what we expect and what is pre-determinedly going on in our minds. A punctuation mark- a comma, a question mark and more importantly, a full stop is not shouting at you or abusing you or poking fun at you. It is simply saying that it is organizing the statement in the correct syntactical form- NOT putting an end to your relationship. It is not asking you to shut up or imagine the person insultingly shrugging shoulders at you.
So how about this? Let's not use a joint family of full stops, these things like to be left alone. Let's not hyperventilate and leave that one exclamation mark alone. Let's not over-imagine what the words are trying to say. Let's not read between the lines when there is nothing to be read. Let's not grow suspicious at the hideous-looking "Okay.", for all you know it could be a simple nod in the physical face-to-face world. Say what you want to say, as you want things to be told to you, because people out there are going paranoid scrutinizing what you say. And I am going mad writing one explanatory sentence for every previous sentence i wrote explaining myself.
Keep :-) ing
