Hope This Email Finds You Well – Well Maybe Not

You know how in school we were all taught to write letters to nonexistent uncles and cousins/friends; letters that were supposed to find said nonexistent recipients in the ‘pink of health’? Well, we carried some of that antiquated phraseology over into our email writing as well; our emails also presumed to find people in good health. I have always found this a meaningless inanity – apparently, Twitter does as well. This is why the tweeple are responding to the “I hope this email finds you well” trend:

We were taught some stock phrases to begin and end letters: remember I am in receipt of your letter or I remain yours obediently?

No, not well… and no better for having received said email.

This is how the email found her – clearly not very ‘well’.

Many identified with this twitter trend because life has not been kind recently – to a lot of us.

This email recipient appears to have hit the bottle.

By the looks of that cat, the email found this person sleep deprived and not at all well.

And not wanting to wake up either.

Clearly not! That hope was misguided.

And not in a good way.

Many of us seem stuck right now – unable to move forward or make any kind of progress.

There are some emails that we prefer never to receive.

This email apparently finds the recipient unhappy – collectively unhappy.

Some of us are just angry and/or frustrated with life right now.

Everyone knows there is only one way to butter bread – and that is thickly.

With so many of us continuing to work from home, emails are quite likely to find us unwashed, dressed in rags and probably smelling unsavoury, indicates this tweet.

Dude with Sign is the well-known Instagram handle with 7.4 million followers who offers us bits of wisdom such as no caption is a caption, reminds us not to post rubbish online and how your mask goes on your nose too. This is his response to the “Hope This Email Finds You Well” trend – he clarifies that emails are not finding him well either.