Sunday, 14 March 2010

behavioural changes

The lack of punctuations and expressions in texting can be really be misleading. It normally passes off as "cold" even though it simply means neural/ what the content is about, nothing more and nothing less. Whether or not punctuations and expressions disguise affection, it really boils down to the relationship between the texter and the receiver. If you know the person really well, because you are close to him/her, you won't have to worry about the person because you should know why the person texts that way and there's nothing to worry about (or something). But is it closely correlated? Being close and knowing the person? Is it possible to be close to a person and not know how the person is like? Maybe. I'd say that this test is continuous variation i.e. anything's possible/ nothing is impossible. (wts?)

Back to my case. I am exceptionally lousy in interpreting texts without punctuations and expressions, especially if the texter is someone I am very close to. The closer I am to the person, the more worried I become when I receive a text with just alphabets strung together. Is it because I care too much? Paranoia? Have I got nothing else better to do other than thinking how the person is feeling? I'm not saying that I don't know the person that I'm close to, but sometimes you just have that doubt because people, well being the true nature of a human being, is liable to act out of the normal behaviour from time to time. & this assumption is stuck in my mind. Truth be told, it's very rare for me to not be cautious of someone whom I am starting to get close to. Again, it's human nature issn't it? It's self-defence.

I really shouldn't be spending too much time on this with my luggage yet to be packed, assignments yet to be done and errands yet to be run (ran?). I was quite bugged with a couple of texts these few days and I'm keeping it all in until now, which once again have proved that bottling is just not for me. When will I learn? :/

Henceforth, I've decided to settle with the fact that texters tend to leave out punctuations and expressions because they are tired. Full-stop. No more listing out of possibilities. No more of getting worried, acting foolish and adolescent-y. Just leave it and move on!

Obviously, through this post, one can see that Statistics has taken over my mind. I'm in desperate need of a getaway for a couple of days at least!! :(