a life without full stops

so, there I was

walking home, laden with groceries cursing the fact I hadn't made an on-line order this week (and yes, I forgot the cat biscuits, so I'll have to go out again) (or perhaps they'd like to share a tin of tuna?) (again!)
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and I was thinking of when I first downgraded postal districts and trudged the streets of SWLondon SomethingOrOther - when you, dear reader, were the Company of Friends who joined me in the Kindness of Strangers. . .
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. . .after I'd deleted the original (the very original!) I, Like The View
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(ho hum)
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[my blogger profile question remains as a reminder:
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'The hair from your last haircut ...
what would it say about your new style?

'my hair speaks volumes, most frequently:
"learn from your mistakes. . .
(and don't make the same one twice)"
'
]
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and, if I return from my minor digression, I was thinking about
not using full stops
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I know how to
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if I chose to,
I could
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but sometimes a full stop is rather final,
isn't it
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whereas a pause (for thought or for breath)
is merely a moment in time whilst you wait for something else to come along
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it's not an ending
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(and believe me, I've experimented with enough kinds of endings to know that they're not all they're cracked up to be)
(whether you achieve them or not)
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so, in case you ever wondered. . .
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(in one of those moments when your thoughts are clear of things in the important/urgent box) (you know that grid that they taught you in executive training, on the course entitled "how to accomplish everything on your to-do list in one easy lesson") (no? you are kidding! well, you draw a large square, and then divide it into quarters, then write "urgent/not urgent" across the top two boxes, and "important/not important" down the side two boxes, then you divide your tasks up into important/urgent, important/not urgent, not urgent/important and not urgent/not important, then you do the important/urgent ones, then the urgent/not important or not urgent/important ones [kinda depends on the task, and this is the flaw of the grid IMHO] and obviously you either don't do the not important/not urgent ones or you wait until they become not important/urgent) (ta-da!) (of course, it's much more fun if your "box" is circular, or an ellipse even, and I suppose it would work with a heart but it might not work with a star)
(they don't tell you that on the course)
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. . .that's why my punctuation is sometimes lacking
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(because life goes on)

8 comments:

Dave said...

It does.

Mel said...

Oh gosh....please please please--don't you understand I talk with my hands?!?!

Go figure, eh? LOL

This would be why Mel will continue with all SORTS of punctuation and fun things!
(including poor grammar AND newly invented words!)

I thank you for the donation of full stops to my cause!
(you did donate them, right?......)
(cuz you see how frequently I use them, right?....)

:-D

I need all the full stops I can get! ;-)

I, Like The View said...

Mel I really like the newly invented words. . .

talking with hands is good

(-:

here, have some more........ ... ...... ... ...... .... . ......... . ..... ..

Dave yes, it does

I, Like The View said...

(Mel I know that looks like Morse Code, but it's not!)

Mel said...

Yup--looks like Morse Code, but I'll take what I can get! :-)

Geeze, I've tried sitting on my hands and even folding them in my lap......NOPE--handtalker!
Gawwwwwwdd.....I just know that's a sign of old age......LOL

<-- going for a bubble bath with duckies and gold fishie!

katherine. said...

I sorta like full stops.

and I love the rainbow coloring of the post...sorta fits the content just about perfect....

I, Like The View said...

katherine. tell me why!

Mel hope you had a wonderfully hot and bubbly and relaxing bath
(-:

mig said...

Is this some kind of crossword puzzle?
Ok. I can do the square and the quarters.
And the words across the top and down the sides (as long as spell check is working - I can spell perfectly well but I do lots of typos).
After that I get a bit confused.

I think it's just as well life goes on.