The recent WhatsApp feature that allows editing came to save me from falling into many usual but less text-astrophe. It's been all safe for me to text and edit when I make mistake since the feature update, but some things haven't changed yet. It's in humans to make mistakes sometimes intentional and a lot of times, unintentionally.
It counts for texting too, I can't even start counting the number of times I've faced consequences of my texting mistakes. To think that, texting is my favourite way of communicating, you can imagine just how many times I must have texted blunders, sent the wrong messages and caused trouble using my love for texting.
One time, I sent a "Good Mourning" instead of a "Good Morning" to someone who had just lost a friend and I didn't check to see the spelling until after the person replied and it almost felt like it wasn't a mistake from my end even though I knew it was. Simple mistake could have brought some sad feelings to him at that time.
From my past mistakes that didn't get to a worse case scenario, I've learnt to be more careful when I send texts, avoid blunders and especially sending the wrong message to the wrong person. But is it really possible to be free of texting blunders and mistakes totally? I think it's not, my experience seem to only gain more experience.
It doesn't happen everyday and sometimes, it happens once in a week or a month but one thing is clear, I am not an AI at texting yet (maybe I'll be one in the future with more practices lol). From all my text-astrophes experience, there is one that almost kicked me out of an important initiative before I knew what had happened.
Using WhatsApp, I was chatting with a friend of mine while engaging on a group text room regarding a very serious matter then, I can't even remember what it was about because my mistake ended that discussion. The cause of the mistake that I failed to realize until the mistake happened was that, my friend was in the group too.
You know how two friends keep chatting about things very personal and taking breaks to join in a group conversation, I didn't know it was what could cost me something big if I didn't get lucky. We both started to gossip on some of the things being discussed since we can't just type against them in the group and it happened.
I tried to reply to my friend from my notification bar regarding the whole issue and I sent it confidently with laughing emojis at the end. To make things worse, I didn't confirm where I sent it to and went off to do something offline. Do I need to say more? I came back to a flood of messages, I had caused commotion before leaving.
My friend had gone offline too but was the one who called me to check WhatsApp, I felt my heart racing away from my chest when I saw my message that was supposed to be in my friend's dm in a group chat. Many laughed to it, the leaders of the group didn't take it lightly at first but slowly, they somehow saw sense in what I said.
It ended well and I escaped but I learnt my lessons because the heart pain I felt from it at first was not something I wish to have a second experience of. Fun texting turned disaster can be unexpectedly scary.
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