To Kiss or Not to Kiss
When did saying hello or goodbye stop being simple? I’m sure it was simple when I was at school. Just “Hello” and “Goodbye” would suffice. The art of letter writing was quite straightforward. You only had to remember to sign off “Yours sincerely” to a named person and “Yours faithfully” to an unnamed “Sir” or “Madam”. When I recently received a text from a burly builder friend, apologising for not having put a “x” at the end of his previous text, it made me laugh out loud, but also had me thinking how complicated it has all become, and what an awful waste of emotional energy we must expend trying to get it right. I think I was first aware of the issue in the sixth form when some of the drama luvvies started to air kiss when they met each other. Being air kissed for the first time was quite a shock and straight out of my comfort zone. I struggled with that through university and into the work place. Is it the right thing to actually ...