> > Hi Chris,
>
> Hi there, how are you today?
I am well...and you? It is raining here in Southern California. In
April....wow.
> >> If you want the message to be read, make it nice to read.
> >
> > If you want to read a message you will no matter how it looks. If your
> > mother wrote badly would you not read it because it didn't look good
> > enough for you? How silly is that? If you do not want to read something
> > then don't and don't use the lame excuse that it didn't look appealing
> > enough for you. Not reading something because it didn't look good is
> > the ultimate laziness.
>
> Well, what I meant by nice was not 'appealing', but more 'arranged in a
> logical order'.
As I said, appealing. Arranged in a nice order is appealing, nice to the
eyes, good looks. The only time I think logical and like text in a
logical order is when I program. Any other time I like the carefree,
unrestricted ways. It makes my life more fun and easier to handle. I am
more of an emotional person anyway.
> e.g. It's difficult (not nice) to search through hundreds of lines to find
> the one particular bit to which you are referring. It's much better to
> select that bit and write your reply just after it (as you seem to be
doing
> lately).
>
> Don't you agree that this is much easier to follow?
Life is difficult. It always has been and always will be. If everything was
so nice it'd be boring.
This is my normal way of writing email. And as you can see I have not
deleted much of the original email. And yes, I like this better, I always
have but I do not expect anyone else to do it the way I like it. I guess
what I am saying is that I do not impose my will on others. I really
believe in the Freedom of choice and that, to me, means accepting a person
for who they are not who I want them to be (including how to write email).
That is all I am trying to say in all this. Just let a person be free to
write the way they want. Here in America (at least in Southern California
where I was born and raised) there is a saying...."If you don't like
it..get out". So I have lived my life that way. If I do not like something I
do not deal with it. I ignore it. If I do not like the way a person is I
just do not have anything to do with that person...simple. I do not try to
change that person nor submit to that person's ideas or ways of life, I just
do not bother with that person. If that person crosses my path I may say hi
but that is it.
> >> > Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
> >
> > Not everything. This quote was ment for quality workmanship not email.
>
> But shouldn't that extend to everything you do?
> (and that typo is beautiful!)
No, not everything. If that were the case then I'd have to live my life
trying to be perfect and that will never happen...to anyone. I tried that
when I was real young...what a miserable life I had. Freedom also means the
ability for a person to accept one's own imperfections without guilt. My
life is much happier not trying so hard to make everything perfect. The
desire for perfection is only in that which is important. Not everything is
important enough for perfection. (Thanks!)
> People come to this list to discuss aspects of Internet cafes, and to ask
> advice. The quality of a person's email can say a lot about them. If you
> received conflicting advice about some question you posted, and one was
> nicely laid out, succinct and to the point, whilst the other was just a
> couple of lines on top of a pile of quoted and re-quoted messages, which
> would you be inclined to believe?
Truth is not in how it is presented....it is based on fact not looks. A
person can write very nicely and it can be a lie. We call that "a wolf in
sheep's clothing". If everyone believed that well written meant truth then
everyone could be fooled into anything, all a person has to do is write well
and they would have you eating out of their hands. How ludicrous is that?
No, my friend, well written is not the foundation of truth. Look at some of
the news we have seen lately. A guy trys to kill a cop and is killed
instead. The public is given a picture of the guy in a nice suit and tie to
pursuade the public that he was killed wrongly. The public is not told he is
a thug and has a history of arrests. But because it is presented and written
nicely the public believes the guy was shot unjustly. Where is the truth?
Why is it writen so nicely and yet a lie? - To get the public to believe
the lie.
If the couple lines on top of a pile of quoted and re-quoted messages was
the truth I'd believe it. Truth, in fact, is often not pretty. Have you
heard the saying "Truth Hurts"? Who wants to know the truth when it hurts
(or unpleasent to read). I accept the truth no matter what form it is in.
>
> Have a nice day.
You too.
Isabeaux
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