thoughts about email.

[baratron]

I sent my friend Tim four emails last night. This was despite the fact that I spent yesterday evening with him & his bf, and had spoken to him on the phone several times over the weekend. Admittedly, all of the emails were relatively short, and mainly consisted of "Oooh, have a look at this web site I found" or "Oh my God, I just found A Very Strange Item on eBay" (yes, we found a baratron on eBay. No, I didn't bid for it) - but I still spent something like half an hour or more writing to someone I'd only just seen.

Then, I spent several hours sending long emails to people that I had been promising to write to for some time. And it struck me how imbalanced that was. Why is it that the majority of the email I send is to the people I see every day, about trivial things? And the important email - the messages communicating love and affection - goes unanswered and unwritten for weeks at a time?

I'm not sure that this question has an answer.

Comments

Re: meeeep!

[nitoda]

So now i get to jerk you around and say, Oh, so you don't trust me enough to just say any old thing and know i'll still like you, eh? (evil grin)

Come off it! There's this switch with me, see - if i let you get close enough to even start caring, then it doesn't switch off - trust me, on that at least, please! That may be why i don't have too many friends .... but once a friend, pretty much always a friend, or at least always someone who will be remembered with affection and gratitude for having known them and shared stuff with them, even if we end up losing contact.

But that's probably just me, i'm wierd, i know.

nickie{D}