Resuming from yesterday:
The third tenet of the blogging evangel is quite simple, really: Answer your e-mail every time all the time.
No, I am not referring to the missives we all get from some grieving relative or financial expert hired to handle the affairs of same asking us to contact their bank in Nigeria. Although I’ve often wondered when people in Nigeria get these e-mails what country the bank is located in they’re asked to contact. But I digress.
I’m talking about actual communication, one person to another.
I mentioned a short while ago a saying my late father was fond of. I inherited many things from him, the greatest man I have ever known. Including a few I wish I hadn’t, such as his penchant for talking back to his employer and the reason why I have this lengthy scar on my left arm as a souvenir of relieving ulnar nerve entrapment! The former doesn’t do much for your career advancement potential and the latter is self-explanatory. But all in all, I’m eternally grateful to him for what he passed on to me. And I do mean eternally, for he was a man of faith. One of those things was an affection for creating sayings. Not in any effort to obtain pop culture fame by coming up with something that would catch on for fifteen minutes, but rather as a vessel for communicating the truth in a succinct manner. I’m going to now share one of these sayings with you.
If you’re too busy… yes.
We can all come up with any number of reasons why we don’t answer our e-mail. We get too much, it would take away from our blogging time, blah blah blah.
Bull.
The truth is when we establish ourselves as participants in a social medium, then fail to participate in the social aspects of said medium aside from directly speaking solely to those we deem to be of stature either equal to our own or at a level to which we aspire, we’re not “too busy.”
We’re rude, condescending jerks.
I’d like someone to explain how we can claim to be purveyors of truth when this is the truth.
Who are we to dismiss others?
Remember how earlier I referenced exchanging e-mail with Maryscott O’Connor? Assuming you can for at least a moment set aside the “what is a conservative doing writing the likes of her” aspect, which I’ll address in a bit, what part of the reference stands out?
We exchange e-mail.
We write each other back.
So what’s your excuse for not doing so with people you are wholly or the majority in agreement with? Or for that matter, not doing so period?
Again I say it: if you’re too busy… yes. Yes, you are. And you are the only one responsible for this being the case.
The conclusion tomorrow.
