I’ve done it occasionally here (not in a while though) and I’ve just done it on a board that I visit. I’ve noticed it in im sometimes aswell. Its very easy to sit back and to type, at least I find it quite easy, especially if you are typing about someone, I often write a sentence and then go back on it but I’m working on that. One of my prior bosses did the same and we would often comment when we were dealing with tricky situations that you reply to the mail, send it to yourself and then get on with the real reply.
In fact, I don’t know if I still have it but in all my time at my current company there is one email that I am more proud of than most other things. I was damn unhappy when I received a mail, it was about a project which had gone bad, I’m sure a couple of you can guess what it was. I wasn’t even all *that* angry about it, I was very unhappy with everything to do with it. It was late in the afternoon and I knew I wasn’t able to write a reply to it. So I didn’t I left it alone and I carried on. Later that night I was thinking about it and I was actually in the shower at the time and it struck me of the right way to respond. So I finished in the shower, poped online and wrote it out and as I was writing it I just knew that it was a good email. I remember dealing with everything it brought up and more importantly dealing with it well.
Anyways back onto the point, when I type something out that maybe I don’t actually want to out and say, or maybe that I do want to say but I just don’t actually want to say it. That makes sense to me, I hope your still with me. Anyways there is quite a psychological build up to pressing the enter button (or in my case ctrl +Enter), and once you reach that point where you just hit the keys its all ok. I mean while I may not have actually wanted to go and tell someone nevermind an entire fucking message board that little fact once I hit the buttons it brought that little more something…clarity maybe? peace of mind? balance? There is a word or phrase that fits in there but I can’t think of it.
It can be quite a dangerous barrier, and it can lead to a lot of trouble, but its not always a bad thing. I hope this has in someway made sense to you, if not tough it did to me and this my blog so there ;p