Backspace - The Untold Words

While conversing over chats, the most used button is backspace. We all chat through messaging apps these days. They are convenient to the users and even work when the user is not free at the moment. One can message today and the message could be read by the receiver the next day.

With convenience come certain drawbacks. Backspace is one of them. While chatting with someone, people frequently use backspace, to omit the idea which is in their head because it may or may not sound that good to the listener. People tend to manipulate the talks they want to do over text. Texts provide relief to introverts as they need not to contact someone over call and face that awkward silence but the same chat force down several thoughts that a person wants to say.

The talks over chats are mostly sweet as the persons involved manipulate their words again and again. They write the same thing again and again till it sounds presentable or suitable. The messages leave the authenticity behind the veil of backspace. There are fake praises, hollow encouragements, empty words which are send after forming the sentences again and again. Anything that you don’t want to talk about, erase; anything that might trigger the person opposite me, erase; anything that might make him or her lose interest in me, erase; this is how things work here.

Similarly, the same backspace has protected useless fights to break over petty things. The same backspace has made the person retype the whole phrase so that the talks could be explained in a better way and there is no chance of misunderstanding. The same backspace has given us the chance to rectify our mistakes.

Still I hope sometimes that I want to read all the words that someone wanted to say to me; I want to know the number of times the person erased it all before he or she was able to form the given sentence that they sent me; I want to read all the words and thoughts that came and went while someone sent me a single message. Sometimes I think that those backspaced words tell us more about that person and their thoughts than these sent messages.

Then again, I want to say a lot of things to all my readers but am unable to form my thoughts correctly. So I type them all and use backspace; and write Thank you and The End while my thoughts keep spinning around my head.

Again, Backspace knows more than these written words.