Since the moment I logged into my WordPress setup to write this post, I have received one email, 2 SMSes and 1 orkut scrap (Can you believe that?) wishing me an immense amount of luck and happiness in the year to come. Nothing personal - of course, my email just figures in the address book when these wishes are sent to all.
It has been a laid back day, not the best way to start the New Year but again does it matter at all. Throughout the day, this thought is coming back to me again and again that what exactly is the psyche behind sending these bulk wishes.
Do you really care for me and sincerely wish that I succeed in what I pursue? I doubt. I have received wishes from people who haven’t spoken to me in years, and are not likely to do that as well in the years to come.
Then why exactly am I getting these emails?
Some people say it’s a good way to keep in touch. I can’t figure out how. In most cases, the email would be sent to trash even without opening it.
As I am writing this, I am getting even more curious. I feel like catching some of them red-handed when they are composing these emails the next time before leaving office on a festive day and interviewing them on what exactly are they feeling at that moment. What’s the urge that makes them convey wishes to all who belong to their address book? If you have also sent one such email this festive season, please spare a moment to think about this and drop a comment with the answer you found (anonymous comments would be even better as it would become a very fair survey then).
Done my bit?
There is a friend I had. He was a very introvert person. When he felt like speaking to someone, he often dropped the idea probably because when he thought about what he would talk, how he would hold the conversation, he had no clue. He didn’t ever try.
But he never misses to send his best wishes via email on every festival.
Email is an easy medium to communicate, or rather just say what you had to say. You don’t have to worry about a lot of factors. It’s simple to shoot off an email to everyone, shut yourself up in your own closet, log on to the favorite social networking site and send a few more good wishes to do your bit. It’s a little hard to drop by a friend, spend a few good minutes to convey that you care. If you can’t drop by, call up. Have a little heart to heart, and you know for yourself that means zillion times more than that pretty email or that animated scrap.
Some things are better done the old way.
Let’s not spam, let’s communicate, and let’s take an effort to touch each other’s lives. Trust me it’s worth it.
