This is going to sound stupid to some of you. I was sitting here tonight working on a story, came to the end of a sentence, and was trying to decide whether or not to end it with an explanation point. This is one of my pet peeves, the misuse of punctuation, and so I wanted to do it right. So I imagined it as being a real life situation and decided, yes, it needed an exclamation signifying a bold revelation point rather than just a period which would be indicative of just an end.
That’s when it stuck me that this is an exercise that I should be applying to real life. How much of what we do should have an abrupt finality and how much should be not just a benchmark, put a point of pride and hope? I know I really need to do a better job at deciding what the important things are in life and give them their due attention and praise. Looking back, there have been a lot of problems in my life I could have avoided, but then again, maybe looking forward there are a lot of things I can make better. So here’s the explanation point!
