As Bill stated, communication via email and forum postings is much more haphazard than speaking in person, and speaking in person can be fraught with miscommunication. Despite our best intentions, people will misunderstand what we have written. It happens. And that's ok. We learn from experience. We need not blame ourselves or others. Miscommunication happens. We need not be angry with ourselves or others. We learn from our experiences, we grow, we communicate better.
Each of us has traveled a unique lifetime journey to get to this point, this place at this time. We can not know the journey that anyone else has traveled; and we understand little of our own journey. We, or the person we are communicating with, may be rushed this morning, we may have just had an altercation with an employer, or customer, or a driver on our way to work. Health problems, family problems, financial problems, etc, all play a role in where we are at any given moment, and in how we thus communicate with others at any given moment. Our past experiences in a particular milieu will color the way we communicate on that topic. Ebay is an example. Our past experiences, feelings and emotional responses based on those experiences, will subconsciously influence our communication on that topic, just as it does countless other topics, and just as it does for those with whom we are communicating.
Despite our best intentions, miscommunication happens. It's ok. We need not blame others or ourselves. We learn; we grow. We evolve as individuals, and as a community.
