For those of you who know me- which I’m assuming all 4 of you do…hehe, you know that I march to the beat of my own drummer. I have my own way of doing things, which sometimes makes it hard for other people to understand me, but it works in my world. When I talk, it is very rare that I have a structured clear conversation- unless of course it’s about food which I pride myself on being very accurate at describing. So, when my friend was reading my blog and was horrified at the cluster that existed before her, it came as a surprise to me. “That’s just my style,” I told her. “Oh my gosh,” she shrieked, “I would never read a blog that didn’t have paragraphs!” Was it really that big of a deal? I mean it’s how my brain works- no time for breaks or I forget what I was thinking, I just spit it all out and it’s done. “You have to use paragraphs,” she scolded, “Every thought should have a break between it.” Hmmmm… this could change everything- but I was never one to pass up a chance to try something new. I moved my finger over to a button I had seldom pushed… ENTER!
Wow. New Paragraph, new thought- that was easy.
I did it again. Another thought. The page looks so much different!
How about those Yankees? Rough year.
What do I want for dinner?
Oh so many thoughts, and now they all have their very own place on the page. Maybe I was missing out never taking breaks all these years… which got me to thinking…
A new thought…haha! I do the same thing in life. I always seem to be on the go go go. I feel like I should have good answers to everyones questions about exactly what I’m doing with my life. So rather than just press the enter key and exist in the space before the next paragraph of my life, I keep going on. I feel guilty if I ever just take a break to give myself the chance to start a new paragraph. So I constantly keep dragging out this long paragraph in hopes that it will just get better. What I’ve realized is paragraphs make sense.
I like starting a new thought. Giving people a chance to see separate ideas, and it does make it so much easier to read. When I press enter, I create new thoughts, end one era and begin a new. If the last paragraph was sad, I can start the next one happy. It’s so great!
What if I could start using the enter key in my life? Not feeling guilty about taking a break between jobs. Being honest when people ask what I’m doing right now, and tell them, “Oh, I’m actually in between paragraphs right now.” I mean it’s the space between that creates the paragraphs. Without that space it would just be, well like one of my other blogs. What if I could and one thought at the period, press the enter key and find the next thought after the space between?
Who’d have thought that I had to come to Asia to learn proper English grammar- and learn grammar to figure out that my life is in between paragraphs. I am traveling the world, learning about other cultures and finding out things about myself that I will use to create the next paragraph of my life- but this space is necessary. Not to mention… Space is fun- it is where you can create and gather new ideas and look back at your other paragraphs. It is where you can try something you didn’t in your last paragraph, or something you had thought about and never got around to. People really do underestimate the importance of this important rule of grammar.
I am now a paragraph person. I will use paragraphs, press enter, and continue to separate things as needed as I create the rest of this life that I am currently writing.
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