Greetings
Are you a ‘smile, high-five or a wave’ person? What’s your preference for written greetings and sign-offs: Hi, Dear, Hey, Yours Sincerely, Best Wishes, Kind Regards? No doubt it depends on the person you’re contacting and the context. You can seldom be sure these days due to the many communication options whether there will be any top or tail let alone some abbreviation you don’t understand. The old order of things has gone out of the window with spelling and handwriting becoming ever more unpredictable. This is true also of the forms of physical greeting – no longer a reliable handshake in the West or nose rubbing in New Zealand. During Lockdown, we saw the arrival of fist salutes and elbow bumps. Greeting cards may still be big business but nothing quite matches a card received that a person has actually bothered to make for you. Do you still like to send and receive them? Perhaps this Booster has been sent to you as a greeting – if so, congratulations or commiserations as appropriate!
- ‘What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal’ – Joe Gebbia