Not so long ago, I had sent a congratulatory message to a very senior person on LinkedIn. I had worked with this person on one project. It was not a pleasant meeting. It was an Escalation call. The context of the call was why did the project go wrong, why isn't the client happy.  I congratulated him on his recent accomplishment. And as usual, as most senior people do he was polite enough to reply and his response ended with the sentence - Hope you are doing well.

I wanted to sound intelligent, smart, serious, I wanted my message to give a sense that I was doing well. But what I wrote was more of a verbal vomit - A volley of non- sequenced statements - I said something like - i am reading a lot of books, snippet below: Try not to laugh. I was being Ernest in my quest and as honest as possible . 

 I am reading Management books. 2. Blogging - I pen down my thoughts (but they are private as everything I write is not about Salesforce) to improvise on vocabulary. 3. Vlogging - ....

Since the time the message hit the send button I felt stupid, silly and needless to say embarrassed. So today I wrote one more message, a shorter one this time to say how embarrassed I felt and with a promise that if someone asks me 'Hope all is well with you' I will as a thumb rule, stick to a one-liner 'I ma doing well, thank you."