That awkward moment when you don't have a subject for your email... and you should

Picture it -- you are at work typing an email out to a client/colleague/boss and you have the entire body put together perfectly. It's not anything specific, but it is important to relay this information. After honing the email to be perfect, because that's what everyone does, you click send and Microsoft proceeds to tell you there is no subject to your email.

May I just say that in the days of calling someone on the phone you didn't have to worry about subjects on email boxes. Or how the wording of your subject could be perceived by some as inappropriate or arrogant or assuming, you just had the tone in your voice to inflect all of these things. So now, after painfully staring at this email and making it the most neutral and unassuming as possible while still being assertive, you don't have a subject. You certainly can't send it without a subject because, that would look just awful and no one would read it!

It's very annoying that a medium which gives absolutely no inflection of emotion at all can somehow be the most dauntingly terrifying thing. But, the fact that any of us actually think this could be all in our head, although I'm pretty sure that's highly unlikely.

So when you get frustrated at the subject box on a work email, consider this: There is no way you can win this battle of the email so give up now!

I hope you enjoyed this pep talk and I appreciate your unwavering support!