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Before I started this blog, a few people told me that I should write a book. I was very tickled by the idea, and very honored by the suggestion.
Four months into this blog, not a soul has told me that I should write a book. I am very thankful for the incredulity, and very humbled by the silence.
In all seriousness, thank you all for your kind words about T.O.C. Most of those comments are "Hey I read your blog!"with very little to follow regarding what was read and if it was intelligible or not, but I take what I can get.
The most concrete result of my writing has been certain persons saying "It is what it is" or "Don't take this the wrong way but..." with staunch regularity and transparent mirth. You know who you are.
Writing this blog has been incredibly beneficial to me in helping me to get to know myself. To give an example, it was during my writing that I realized that I eat approximately 150 lbs of cottage cheese in a year.
I think that to learn how to write better you must write. You must write often and try to vary your methods and subjects. Someday, if I write often enough, I figure something will be good enough to make it into Reader's Digest.
Writing has had another benefit to my daily life: it has facilitated the organization of my thoughts. This has mostly led to me writing things in Evernote that never see the light of day. The two that I had written down for this post were little coffe-bookesque sayings that have no relevance to the greater purpose of this blog, but I can write them because I have literary license:
The simplest but most important aspect of gaining maturity is figuring out that bad ideas aren't actually good ideas at the time.
and
It is far easier to fit your morality to the standard of your action than your actions to the standard of morality.
After I thought of them I realized that all you have to do to sound smart is change the order of words within phrases.
Staying true to the theme of sporadic thought patterns in this post, there is a new app for your phone called Yo. It is an app that, once you have added other yo-ers, gives you the ability to send them a notification at any time that simply says "Yo". Your only response can be to "Yo" them back.
The verbal riposte that is a yo battle can never end. It is an infinite loop of yos. At first I was greatly pleased with my discovery of this app. I was soon floored by a startling revelation that made me lose all of my prior enthusiasm.
The Yo app is the latest and most blatant cheapening of human interaction. Now, rather than facebooking or texting your message to someone, you can simply send them a yo. I sent one to my girlfriend one morning who scathingly texted me "If you think that's gonna take the place of a good morning text you are sorely mistaken." I was very sheepish and yet simultaneously pleased by her response. I love a good call-out.
This post is complete. My biggest point to mention was the exorbitant amount of cottage cheese that I eat. My secondary goal was to have a whimsical post written so I can write a more hard-hitting one next time. Stay tuned! Special shout-out to my mother for her birthday last week!
~Worley
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