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Jul 15, 2014, 06:03 AM
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Member Since: Dec 2013
Location: Europe
Posts: 1,142
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as I've already mentioned somewhere, just before my T's holidays I got an e-mail from her, which I could read over and over again and which was supposed to "calm me down and keep me connected"... As this e-mail consisted only of many questions, it just made me anxious... In addition, all these questions were "only rhetorical questions for your use"... As, I don't find them very rhetorical, I thought that maybe I could post here my answers to each of them every Tuesday when I normally have a session... I guess, at the end, I'll print my posts and bring them to the next session...
All comments are of course welcome and as the first question is about emojis, maybe you know why you use them or hate using them? Or if you have any extraordinary way to communicate your "inner world" to your T if you work on it?
PS. Has anyone an idea what "J" at the end of these T's questions might mean? This letter is quite far away from the question mark on the keyboard...
T's questions for today:
"Will you let me see the smileys that you used in some Emails? Is it a special program that I have to open on my PC?
I am wondering what you were showing me in these little pictures? Maybe we could use them to communicate with the inner world???? J"
My answer:
"As I have already mentioned, I just copied a part of my own post from the online forum which I use into the e-mail addressed to you. That's why you didn't see the smileys and I didn't use any specific software to create them. However, I do not use the smileys to let you know (or someone else) about something which I cannot put into words, so I am not sure how it could work for communicating my "inner world" (yes, I still hate this phrase). I use smileys in writing because I am aware that when people talk in person, we look also at the body language, we can hear the tone and feel the atmosphere, while in writing it is more difficult to catch if something is serious or just a joke, so we have to be much more precised in writing than in talking. When I use smileys is just to give you (or others) the sign that I am not very serious or that I am really serious, for instance I could write the same sentence:
"We didn't have a session today"
"We didn't have a session today  "
"We didn't have a session today  "
"We didn't have a session today  "
And this one sentence with different smileys can mean something completely different, so I use them in order to avoid misunderstandings and to make clear that you will understand what I really mean  "
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