"Just wanted to say that I am around...you don't have to say anything, I don't have anything to say either. But I am around...just letting you know that I am around"
You just sit next to the person. You don't say all those things, but you mean them, just through the action, through the silence.
As wonderful a job the internet does in connecting people, it falls woefully short at critical points. How do you convey that you around to lend an ear, when it is invariably always in your face, that others are always "available"?
As we continue to adapt and get acquainted with the vocabulary of the constantly evolving virtual world, I wonder whether the email has come to perform the role of "communicating through silence" - the kind I just attempted to describe above.
It lies in your mailbox, waiting for your wholehearted acceptance, but does enough to get your attention. (Of course, you could re-route it, mark it as read, but it is possible to find analogies to those in real life as well.)
Once you have acknowledged its presence, you can continue to read its contents and it is would be like reading the other person's thoughts.
You may choose to respond afterwards, or delete it, or just let it be. But at any rate, the process is not a conversation. It has to be closer to these moments of silence....or may be its just me.
You just sit next to the person. You don't say all those things, but you mean them, just through the action, through the silence.
As wonderful a job the internet does in connecting people, it falls woefully short at critical points. How do you convey that you around to lend an ear, when it is invariably always in your face, that others are always "available"?
As we continue to adapt and get acquainted with the vocabulary of the constantly evolving virtual world, I wonder whether the email has come to perform the role of "communicating through silence" - the kind I just attempted to describe above.
It lies in your mailbox, waiting for your wholehearted acceptance, but does enough to get your attention. (Of course, you could re-route it, mark it as read, but it is possible to find analogies to those in real life as well.)
Once you have acknowledged its presence, you can continue to read its contents and it is would be like reading the other person's thoughts.
You may choose to respond afterwards, or delete it, or just let it be. But at any rate, the process is not a conversation. It has to be closer to these moments of silence....or may be its just me.
and what its capable.