The Right Thing.

I've heard that if you want to be a good writer, you write about what you know.

Anyone who knows me knows that I like to write.

If you don't know me, you should know that I like to write.

And I've written a lot of things, but none of these things have been successful. Mainly because I'm a perfectionist. If you know me, you already know that. You also probably already know that BEFORE this blog post, I would have spent a good twenty minutes researching the correct way of writing "essays" before publishing or even continuing to write.

Sometimes I get distracted, sometimes I over think things. Sometimes this is how things go...

Type, type, type...

Type, type, type...

(Thinking to myself) - "Wait...should "essays" be in quotations? Should it be the one quotation thing? Or two? Or should it be slanted? Or maybe just a comma or maybe not a comma...maybe that dash thing, the hyphen? Shoot, I need to learn grammar. I can't get anyone to actually care about what I write unless I write it the right way. Now I've used up all of my writing time learning about whether I should use the two line things or the dash thing and I don't think I've actually learned anything at all.

Maybe I can write tomorrow, if I find the time and figure out what to write about. What do I even know?"

Shut off computer. Trim my nails because the tapping noise when I type is too distracting. Go to bed wondering what I could possibly know enough to write about consistently. Fall asleep playing Candy Crush.

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Can you relate? Is it just me? Did 10 years of absolutely no education affect anyone else? Are you appalled that I'm not even sure whether a hyphen and a dash aren't the same thing?

Eh, I don't think you are. I don't think that you're all that concerned with the details. You're just happy that you're not the only one who is annoyed by people who write "your" instead of "you're" but you can't always remember the technical term of the little line things you're supposed to use.

And that, my friends, is why I like you. Because you appreciate the right way of doing things and you try your best to stick by the right things, but sometimes the details just don't matter. Until they do, and then you're all over it. Right?

So thank you, pal. Thanks for showing up, thanks for sticking it out. Because what's going on here is the right thing. But just not really.

And if you're cool with that, then I'm cool with you. And if you're not cool with that, try not to waste too much energy trying to coax me onto the path of the "way to do it right, but better". I've tried really, super hard to stay on that path. Honest.

But I suck at it.

So I'm just gonna chill here,  - writing about what I know. Doing the right thing in the realest way that I can.


Happy Sunday, Friends.

Cheers - Allison