E is for Effusive…and That’s Good Enough For Me!

My e-mail is often very chuck full of stuff. Most of it I delete because it’s Spam or chain mail – both tools of the devil! But every once in awhile, I get something that’s pretty cool! And a couple days ago, one of those pieces crossed my work mailbox.

A friend at work forwarded me the following missive:

Describe ME in one word.... just one single word. Send it to me and to me only. Then send this message to all your friends and see how many strange and interesting things they say about you. It's fun.

Here's how:

1. Hit the reply key and send me my one word.
2. Then return to this message, and forward it to your friends (including me) and see what people say about you when limited to one word!!!!
3. The game is on.

I was about to trash it after answering the friend who sent it to me (Hey, it’s the right thing to do!). But then I thought about it. What would my friends say about me? Would they be kind…would they be rude? It really didn’t matter as long as they were honest. So, I shot back an answer to my friend (I told her she was “eclectic” to me), sent a copy to Sunny (She is “radiant.”), and then forwarded it to my home e-mail address.

It is my intention to make an experiment of this. While this may look like a simple chain mail to you – it is way to reach out and discover who you are to other people. You may know who you are, but as the old saying goes, what you may believe is not what others perceive. It’s always good to do a little reality check every once in awhile.

I found out that I am thought of as effusive. Looking up, apparently the friend that sent it back to me thought that I am one for “expressions of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm.” And you know what? I’d never thought of myself like that before! It’s funny how others view you, isn’t it?

So go on…try it out yourself. Copy and paste the e-mail and send it. I dare you! Better yet…make that MySpace or Face Book useful for actual communication.

You might be surprised at what you find!