Disappearing punctuation marks

Text/Sen Wind

The young man was my college counselor, and she once asked me if I had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I was shocked when I heard this question, thinking that I seemed to be quite normal, and there was no strange habit. I asked her why she asked, and she said that every WeChat chat I had with her would not make a voice, only type, and every sentence would be followed by punctuation, especially the period, even if sometimes accidentally forgot, it would immediately follow a lonely stop.

I was relieved, thankfully not a strange fetish. This is not the first time I have been asked this question, it has been asked more often, and I can't help but wonder if this is really strange. I explained slowly that I had learned Chinese, dealing with language and writing, and punctuation was also a part of it and was inseparable, so I was used to speaking with punctuation.

This is an external explanation. Internally, for myself, it may really be an "obsessive-compulsive disorder.".

Many times, I like to be different from others, and the most obvious may be reflected in the TV series. The good TV series is updated, the whole circle of friends are watching are recommending, I often do not go to see, may not wait until this boom has completely passed, I will be like an "hindsight" to see the end.

Most people do not like to add punctuation when chatting on WeChat, often it is a sentence sent to explain the meaning, I am different, I use punctuation, this is my special point, so I am proud of this, take pleasure in this. However, this is probably many years ago, I went through my recent chat history, and I no longer have this habit, and I am used to sending only what I have to say, regardless of whether there is punctuation or not.

The reason for this, I didn't care at first, but when I think about it for a moment, I think I changed it myself. Obviously, I have changed in the past few years, the original I have created for myself, I need to maintain my own image, if others think I am like this, I will deliberately become like this. Gradually, one is to find that long-term maintenance of the human setting will be exhausting, and the other is that the mentality has changed, and I am more and more concerned about my own emotions, as long as I am happy, even if I change my impression in the eyes of others, it does not matter.

What disappears seems to be punctuation marks, but it is actually a me, an immature me, which is like many animals in nature, which will shed a layer of skin every winter, but it is still alive and renewed.