Semicolon 4/16

As the wordiest writer I know, I am a huge fan of the semicolon. It's like grammar created a punctuation mark just for me. Oh, what's that, you wrote an entire sentence but you still want to add another thought to it? Boom. Semicolon. Carry on. (My Writing professor, on the other hand, is not as fond of my punctuating habits. She's constantly inserting periods into my papers. But such is life.)

Anyway. Today is not a day for ranting about grammar and punctuation, even though I could. Today is a special day. There's a post circulating on Tumblr that reads like this: "On April 16, 2013, everyone who self harms, is suicidal, depressed, has anxiety, is unhappy, going through a broken heart, just lost a loved one, etc. draw a semicolon on your wrist. A semicolon represents a sentence the author could've ended, but chose not to. The author is you and the sentence is your life."

That's pretty much powerful enough to stand on its own, so I'll try not to cloud the message up with too much fluff from me. Basically though, I love this idea. We've all been broken. We've all had our down days and our dark times and our moments we wouldn't want to tell anyone about. But our stories aren't over. Our sentences aren't finished. And on days like this, we learn that there are millions of other people out there in the same spot, ready to reach out if we just let them.

It's just beginning.