Last night, I decided to update my newsletter email list by adding Collected Emails from my Thunderbird to my email marketing database server. By accident, there was one contact that I forgot to delete from the list. This particular person, who I business correspondence with him (and hence the reason why his email appears on my Collected Emails) happens to work at Giorgio Armani, had asked not be included in the newsletters/database. As a result, this morning, I got back the nastiest email I had ever received to date indicating that he had no interest in anything I do, not my photography, not my newsletter.... and then threatened me by say he was going to send the authorities for spamming him. The latter portion of his email was written in large caps and plenty of exclamation marks, indicating he was screaming at me, loudly. I was rather taken back, in a very disheartened fashion. I quickly sent an email to him indicating it was never my intention to cause him harm nor grieve. Nevertheless, the morning message from this guy sent this wave of darkness into my chest. I pondered over his vile words that permeated through me like a knife. This felt very personal, and I don't know why. Perhaps, it was because he really, really despised me...no, hated me for making his life miserable with that opt-in mailer. I think I'll just crawl back to bed...
Never in my dreams as a little child did I ever think I would come to live, work and play in Hong Kong. Born in Canada to Chinese parents, I moved here in 1994