Daily Insight: Run On Sentence

Beyonce recently compared love to algebra saying “I don’t know much about algebra but I know 1+1=2.” Although that wasn’t really algebra more like arithmetic Bey, I get where she was going with it. With that being said my friends came up with another elementary metaphor for love that rang too true to me today. Who knew a bunch of 20 something’s could be so insightful?

A wise man once said “love is like a run on sentence, there will be many comas, many ellipses (…), and many exclamation points but only a few periods. Those periods are going to be those people that come into your life and make you stop in your tracks. Now for those of us that weren’t really paying attention in English class grades 5-12, let me break down what I mean by the rest of the punctuation I mentioned in love’s run on sentence.

A coma will be a biddie that will come along and maybe make you pause for a second, you know let them take you on a few dates, share a few funny moments, hell maybe even a peck, but they are just a pause. They are there just long enough for you to catch your breath and to continue on with your sentence. I know we all know these. They are a dime a dozen.

Then there are the ellipses. An ellipse is a fancy word for those dot dot dot (…) biddies. I had to go ahead and use a quote from the very trusty Urban Dictionary to truly define these biddies. The Urban Dictionary defines an ellipse triple dot of awkwardness a way to say that you're not really sure, or lets just not talk about it. How many of us have felt that way about a biddie after we’ve truly gotten to know them. It’s the “ok then…” kinda biddies. The ones that you just hope will get the message after you stop picking up their phone calls…

And of course there are those exclamation point biddies!!! Now I can admit in real life I am a serial over-exclamation point user. I use about a million of them when only one is necessary. These are used to describe those biddies that come into your life out of nowhere and this whirlwind romance you have is just amazing, but just as quickly as they came they are gone. Those biddies are fleeting feelings that feel great in the moment but are probably over used.

And then of course there is the period. The biddie that makes you want to stop everything to be with them. The period is the proverbial end of the run-on sentence of love. Of course we will all have a couple of periods in our sentence, the trick is to recognize when one comes along and make sure when you begin a new sentence you know how to punctuate properly.

-Becks