Saba Al -Asfour
Emoji icons are those small symbols that we put in text messages and communication publications, as an expression of our emotions or in support of what we write from the heart and rose and raising the thumb, to the angry face, burning fire and lowering the thumb, each symbol of which carries a message, its phenomenon is simple, but its effect is deeper than we expect.
We often use it – the emoji – quickly and spontaneously in our digital emotions through our virtual dialogues, especially when responding to leaflets that provoke our feelings, whether positive or negative, and the interaction may reach the limit of participation with reasons full of these symbols, without giving ourselves a moment to think about what actually expresses it.
And if we did a simple review of those messages that we wrote in an immediate moment, and we asked ourselves: Do these symbols represent our feelings accurately? What if someone reads it a real nickname? Does the heart represent sincere love? Does the bomb symbolize anger that may actually explode? And if all these references turned into real behavior, what would be the form of reality?
How long will our feelings shock us when we discover the size of our angry, revenge, and pre -ruling reactions! And how much it will be clear that we – like others – are contributing to making a virtual scene with a lot of cruelty and a little trauma!
It is interesting that many of those issues that we interact with, their information is incomplete, unconfirmed or even fabricated, and despite that, we give them our energy, responses and feelings through small symbols that carry great connotations.
Is the reason that we believe that the virtual world is a “safe” space in which we do not hold our emotions? Or is these symbols revealing a buried amount of emotions accumulated within us? If we have the opportunity, do we really behave as these symbols express? Is it just an emotion? Or a true picture of what we store from narrow and fear, and anger towards the world?
We may see that the responses of some are that people also send positive symbols such as roses, love and thanks, and this is true, but even those, instant emotions remain, are not seized by a mind, and are not always related to real consciousness or position, and here comes the need for a simple but important step, which is to review ourselves at the moment of response, and the filter of what we write, and what these symbols mean, and then direct our feelings in a balance. Only.
