Two Sides of the Picture.

You know how it is when you’ve sent two emails to two different people, and you consider both emails to be important so you’re expecting a quick reply if not necessarily an immediate one, but no reply has arrived by the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that?

And so you blame the recipients and consider them inconsiderate.

But then you question your sense of priorities and realise that they’re greatly influenced by your reclusive lifestyle. And you soon come to further realise that people who have close families, friends, work commitments, a social life, etc, etc, will have different views than you do on the matter of what is and isn’t important.

So you forgive them, and then you forgive yourself, and then you try not to become increasingly fractious as each day goes by and there’s still no return email.

(I jotted this down because I thought it important at the time. I’m sure it isn’t.)