Message sending error, it's a problem!

That's how I felt afterwards

Have you ever written a message and accidentally sent it to the wrong person?

What if that other person you sent the message to is the last person who should have read it?

It's happened to me a few times, but the worst experience was when I decided to take responsibility for my mistake. Then I had to explain why I was upset. I don't know if I was able to correct my mistake; I only know that the person in question never said anything to me or pointed anything out.

That taught me one thing: not to send messages referring to other people, either to point them out or to mention things that come to mind in the heat of the moment.

Things can always be resolved, but we have to try to resolve them when we are calm, not under the influence of anger. Because the tendency is to exaggerate things and make the person we are pointing out look very bad. After we think things through in a calmer atmosphere, we realize that anger was the cause of a situation that went wrong.

That comment could probably set a bad precedent for those of us who make mistakes. Instead of solving the situation, it could make everything worse. That's the worst thing of all, having a coworker who is upset because we could have discussed the situation with them personally and fixed it personally, but instead we sent them a written message that was very exaggerated.

I have also heard of situations where it has nothing to do with a complaint, but rather an unattainable desire for a platonic love. After writing the message, the person realizes that they sent it to their platonic love, and not to the person it was meant for.

I don't know how that mistake could be fixed, but in any case, the person who receives it is already on notice.

I don't know how many other ways there are to make a mistake when sending a message, but what I do know is that we should not send anyone a message that, in an unforeseen situation, could compromise us at some point.

The photograph is taken with the Redmi note9 and the banner made with Canva.