Emotiwant

(part deux of this)

So by a superhuman effort I avoided using these chaps for two whole days. But i felt listless, incomplete and strangely repressed. I kept wondering "can people understand me?"; "do they think i'm pissed off because there's no smiley at the end of the snarky message i just sent?"; "have i lost all my friends in one fell swoop?". by the end of last night i was reduced to a gibbering paranoid idiot.

okay so i may have exaggerated a bit in the above paragraph. but in all honesty, i did feel slightly repressed. i think i have gotten so used to appending a little squiggly face to my sentences to assure people that i mean no harm. to dull the bluntness of my words. and without, i feel misunderstood. such a strange dilemma. are we so inept at expressing ourselves that we need a pictorial representation of what we just said as well? whatever the reason, i am retracting my pact of not using emoticons. of course i will try not use them as sluttily as i did before, but in a more chaste, productive way.

:)