Sometimes words mean too much. Like unintended cannon balls.

We’ve been searching for band mates via Internet postings, emailing back and forth with potential candidates. Some people prefer email over phone, say they’re less shy and more direct on email. Well, in this one chain of emails we discussed about bands, discussed it some more, my band mates didn’t think him suitable and so I told him sorry, and somehow I ended up being accused of manipulating his soul.

Kotodama  means ‘word-spirit’. It’s a belief that words contain within itself an energy particular to that word.

The danger of emails is that it’s easy to be direct, and in passion we write exactly how we feel, shaping emotion into words, regurgitating them into sentences without looking back, not thinking how, before clicking that send button, the receiver can take it any which way he/she feels, and can go back to those words framed so neatly in emails, at any time. Email fights are the nastiest I’ve encountered.

We should keep in mind the power of words before hastily clicking that send button.