Water Under The Bridge

Instant messaging is a wonderful way of communicating ; but, at times, it can get me into ‘trouble’. Even with the use of emoticons.

My Scottish education of many many years ago taught me that each word had its own impact and meaning. As a consequence, it is my nature to be too precise in today’s times when reading IM’s or e-mails. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way for me to overcome this except for me to be more open in my interpretations.

Also, another aspect of my education was composing letters, etc without using “I”. In fact, it was one of the components of our “Control” exams when moving into junior high.

To this today, many of my writings follow the same pattern and it is still difficult for me to overcome the precise interpretation of words.

Call me “Mr. Precise”.