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The Next Time You Have Bad News — Don’t Text
There are things we shouldn’t say in a text.
Is text etiquette a thing or are we so desensitized that our concept of acceptable things to say is diminished? This only occurred to me after receiving bad news via text for the second time this year from the same person. It’s evolving into a pet peeve.
Two weeks ago, I felt sad for no apparent reason. I chalked it up to our family’s decision not to travel to Los Angeles to be with our extended family this Christmas. Home for the holidays was on the menu since our eldest son couldn’t go with us as scheduled.
We had a wonderful, joyous small gathering at home.
I like to pinpoint how I’m led to thought patterns that make me feel bad — it helps me understand the difference between choosing to make myself miserable or allowing an external circumstance to do the job for me. Then I can move on with a solution without getting stuck in a soapy negative spin cycle.
Something kept gnawing at me — my intuition in high gear. If I were a dog, my ears would be perked on top of my head.
My favorite cousin and I have a telepathic relationship of sorts. If I’m thinking about her and call, she’ll say I was just talking about you or I was just getting ready to call you. It happens all the time. I guess because we…
