I don't know.
Sometimes?
It's hard to be engaging or clever or sentimental or whatever.
Sometimes?
I just feel all jumbled and mixed up.
If I can't even figure out my thoughts for myself how in the WORLD can I begin to write them out for the whole world to read?
Potentially the whole world.
Hypothetically potentially the whole world.
It'd just be one long ramble.
Or a bunch of babbling.
Then my mind starts whirling those two words around...ramble...babble...rambley babble...babbling ramble...
What's the difference?
Is there one?
Does it matter?
Why can't I stop thinking about the difference between ramble and babble?
It's because it keeps me from thinking about the big things.
The ones I can't get off my mind.
The things that can't be fixed, can't be sorted.
Unsortable.
Kind of like the pile of laundry that won't get off my bedroom floor.
Even though if I want to wear underwear for the rest of the week I absolutely MUST sort it and get it off the floor.
Is that normal?
Do other people ever get to that point?
To this point?
I don't know.
(But I'm pretty sure that babbling is more nonsensical than rambling.)
(I think.)
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I'm a fan of both ramble and babble and also guilty of both.
I'm glad I'm not alone in those feelings. I super really truly want to be writing to my blog, but I'm so flipping exhausted and preoccupied by stressful things that I'm sure whatever I wrote would be a total snoozefest. Probably a tinge depressing too. So I've been abstaining.
I feel ya, sugar pie ♥
Why do you think I don't write?
Babbling is nonsensical ("Millennium hand and shrimp!"), rambling is sensical but pointless.
Thanks, Sasra!
MJI...turns out I'm good at both. And I might quote you someday on that "milennium hand and shrimp!"
Pretty much all I ever do is babble and ramble. I haven't written (or probably even said) anything truly meaningful in...I don't even know. Ages.
For what it's worth, I enjoy reading what you write! :)
If you're going to cite me, it better be as "the guy who introduced you to the works of Terry Pratchett"; it was supposed to be a fairly transparent reference. And everyone should read Pratchett.
I don't even know who Terry Pratchett is. Does that make me a failure as an English major or UST a failure as the one who educated me? Or none of the above. Maybe YOU fail for not introducing me to Pratchett sooner. Hmm...
I love how off-topic I've gotten here. Just goes to show that in a lot of ways, it doesn't matter so much what you write as that you write. Sometimes it's brilliant, sometimes it's random, sometimes it's rambling. Sometimes it's all three. But whatever it is, I'm here. And any time anyone writes something and publishes it, at least two people go away changed.
Back off-topic, I can blame UST for not educating you, but it doesn't really surprise me. Pratchett got a Knighthood for his services to English literature, but fantasy never has been a popular topics in university English departments. Which leaves it to me. Stop by sometime and I'll loan you my copy of Witches Abroad.
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