Rant

I love communicating. It is one of my favorite activities in so many of its forms, be it the phone, letters, emails, facebook messages, sometimes even gchat. My least favorite way of communicating is passing hello's through third parties. It isn't a form of communicating. It passes nothing along except a smidgen of good will. This same good will could be communicated by simply asking about the other person, which the mutual friend could pass on or not, as he likes.

Plus, it is exhausting for the mutual friend. The mutual friend has to remember who to say hello to. And it's awkward. Because what's the person to whom this hello is passed supposed to reply? (Me: "Oh! Hi back!" Goodness gracious, and then what about the second time those same people say hello? It is just an ugly confluence of hello's.