A Lesson in Punctuation and Fairytales

I realized two things today while watching the Sex and the City movie. 1.) That I am a hopeless romantic and 2.) the difference between . VS ...

The first issue isn't really much of a surprise, ever since I was little I've told people I was a princess and that some day I'd live happily ever after. Now that I'm old enough to know that "happily ever after" doesn't always happen you'd think I'd have lost that dream. Alas, I haven't. Somehow I still think I'm going to end up "happily ever after". Sure, I'm not actually a princess, and there is no perfect prince charming to sweep me off my feet, but thats not my happily ever after. To me the key is in the words themselves, Happily as in being Happy or content; and ever after as in when I'm grown. Sure, part of my little dream includes a guy, but its just someone to grow old with, not a prince. Just someone that loves me enough to be happy with me ever after.

The second part is something I noticed in the movie that I actually do. There is a part where Carrie types the word love in two different ways.

1.) Love.

2.) Love...

It seems simple enough, just a couple of dots added to the second, but those two extra dots add meaning to the word. A single period is final (its just the word period ). However, with the addition of the two extra periods it changes the meaning, there is the word or phrase and the implication there is more. I have noticed that I use the latter a lot. I'm constantly writing words, phrases, and sentences and ending them in...
I thought about it, and I think the reason I use those extra dots is because there is so much of my life that has more coming. I can't just use that definitive period, because so much of my life isn't there yet. Plus those extra dots give me hope, without them I am: Alone. Unemployed. Living with my mom. Still in school.
Those are all very scary things and with the extra periods I am: Alone... for now, Unemployed....at the moment, Living with my mom....until I finish school, still in school....so I can get a job I'll be happy with.

Turning Point

I am currently at a major turning point in my life. The time when I decide what I want to do with my life and make drastic changes to my life to prepare for the future. I'm terrified, but some how I know everything will turn out right. One of the drastic changes I had to make I made today. I quit my job of almost 5 years today. After about a year of being treated like crap, I finally reached my breaking point and I quit. I just have to remind myself that quiting my job is the first step towards my future.

The Silent Die Alone

I just want to make this crystal clear; If you don't talk, no one will hear you. If something is wrong and you don't say a word (be it from fear or because you are trying to protect someone else) no one will come to help. Trillions have died from the mistake of silence (The Holocaust, and the so-called War on Terror). Even on a smaller scale silence can be deadly; it can ruin relationships and destroy families. I once thought my fear of silence was silly, I just hated when it was quiet. However now I'm realizing that the fear of silence is valid and is something every intelligent being should fear. Silence is much deeper than quiet, silence is death.