Being written off

Premise #

There will be times, when someone writes us off.

Maybe willingly, unwillingly; maybe there were just the messenger or did it to save themself.

Irrespective, it does not feel good - probably for everyone. One may feel angry, down, sad, vengeful, but most likely not good, or happy.

Most people will say talking to the person who wrote you off is the right, and maybe the only approach.

After all, nothing can not be solved with conversation, right!

There's just one thing that does better than conversation. Or conversation alone.

Action.

Yes, sometimes a conversation in itself is an action. But even then it's not definitive enough.

It's the difference between a legal sign-off and a gentlemen's agreement. An email and a corridor chat. A commit and a issue.

Ideally, a gentlemen's agreement should be enough, but in the real world, made of real, fallible people, it's simply not.

Action. It takes care of being written off. And everything else.