"Ghosting, or suddenly disappearing from someone's life without so much as a call, email, or text, has become a common phenomenon in the modern dating world and other social and professional settings."
Ghosting: What Is It and How
to Move Past Being Ghosted? - Healthline
Have you
ever been ghosted?
I have. Several times. One too many
times. It's infuriating, frustrating, and unexplainable.
I recently put together a developmental
edit for two writers. One well-known and popular author asked me to edit a new
release. I was thrilled to do so, but after, I heard nothing. I still don't
know why.
It's happened before. I exchanged books with an author, each promising to do a review. But I never heard from the author again. I never got the review either, despite my emails—no response.
So yes,
today I am ranting. But I don't understand why a person can't simply say, I disagree.
I didn't like it, or it's not what I wanted. Something, anything, but to just
go silent. It's wrong.
Pure and
simple, ghosting is rude.
Unless it's
a Nigerian prince pretending to be a doctor, a highly decorated military
officer, or a CEO on a foreign job placement. You know the handsome guy on
Facebook who calls you beautiful in his first or second sentence, then goes on
to misspell half of the words in his next paragraph. In that case, you have
every right to ghost and BLOCK!
LOL, rant
over.
Thanks for
reading.
