Posted by Susan47 on April 14, 2005, at 13:35:48
In reply to Re: On civility, kindness, and being pc » sunny10, posted by partlycloudy on April 14, 2005, at 11:56:35
Please may I butt in, PC? I find I have no trouble putting inflections in my writing, and you do it too but maybe you don't see it. And the way I get an inflection is definitely not always the way it's meant but real life is like that too. People constantly misinterpret or misunderstand or don't get what somebody's said to them. All the joy and the anger and other emotions you put behind your writing, the stuff we can't visually see, I can still feel it, PC, when I read what people write. You can too, right? It may not be what you actually experienced, but it's a version of it. That's not much different from me standing beside you and getting or not getting it but still feeling great empathy and compassion for you. I wish I could give the hug IRL, though. That part is really tough. And when people disappear. That's very very tough. And you worry about them and hope for them and want the best but are powerless, absolutely powerless to do anything (sigh).
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