So many things are different than they once were. Sure, the same people keep being born, but things do change around us. Fashions, languages, social norms, all change gradually, usually from one generation to the next. The question is if you will embrace those changes.
If you don't, you become an old dog who can't learn new tricks or an old fogey who is stuck in their ways. I suppose you could do it if it makes you happy, but it makes for less-accessible writing. We used to be sitting at the precipice of a major change in our written language. I would say that we have now tipped over the edge and are gaining momentum.
Whatever is changing around you, embrace it. People are putting captions on pictures of cats. They are using symbols to represent emotions. And of course they have countless words and phrases that would never be allowed in a doctoral thesis. But these are not bad, only different.
The times, they are a changin'. When it was your generation changing things, you embraced it (regardless of which generation you are from). Don't stop embracing that change just because you got familiar with the changes you created.
About Me
- Kevin Bahler
- I am a writer. A writer is one who writes. By the same logic, I am also a thinker, an observer, and a puzzle solver. I am a graduate from the State University of New York at Cortland with a degree in Professional Writing. The idea of the program is that one studies all three aspects of writing as a whole: Creative Writing, Technical Writing, and Rhetoric. The knowledge I have gained in those subjects is put to use in every aspect of my life. The worst thing a person can be is boring. I am most interested in people who can pique my interests. An example is people who can correctly use the word 'pique'.
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