I try pretty hard to have good grammar in
my blog, but you may have noticed a few slip-ups here and there. Needless to
say grammar is not my strong suit. One of my biggest issues is that I overuse
commas. I can’t help it; I just don’t want to end my sentences. When I feel
like something is still part of the same thought I figure it might as well be
in the same sentence.
The song Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay has a lyric in it that reads:
“I'd rather be a comma than a full stop”
Now aside from the fact that I use commas a
lot, I feel this lyric applies to me. I’d much rather continue to grow and
change and develop. A comma gives a sense of more to come, that this is not the
be all and end all.
A full stop means it is what it is. That it’s the
end and it’s not going to change. No more surprises, no more chances to see
what might come. Period.
I guess, like most things in life, it depends
on the situation. Most of the time it’s great to be open-ended: to be up for
more, to be willing to wait and see what happens. But there are times when
there is no space for more. Things are what they are; you cannot add to or take
away from them.
I am definitely an over-thinker in some
situations and have a hard time letting go. But there comes a time to stop
using commas, to stop hoping that the sentence will change direction or that
this isn’t all there is. Sometimes that really is all she wrote. Sometimes it’s
best to end your sentence. And when you do, you can start a brand new one. One
that could take you to places you’d never imagined…
