Idiocracy ITS HAPPENING PEOPLE!!

[Vasiliki]

I can type fairly quickly. It comes from the fact I used to write my own novels in my spare time, so I developed a pretty quick hand when it comes to keyboards. Honestly, when people say it's too much work to hit the apostrophe button, I look down and notice that my pinky finger naturally hovers across that key anyway. More effort? Really? It literally takes me dropping my pinky finger to use most punctuation. So, no... 'Taking too much effort' is not an excuse. Hitting the shift key to make capital letters is also not an excuse. I look down and notice: Oh, my pinky finger is naturally hovering across that button too. If I hit that, it leaves my other fingers to select the proper key in need of being capitalized.

When we start making excuses, it's because we are just finding a way to get out of owning up to something. Yes, spelling mistakes happen. Grammar mistakes happen. I'm not super hard on people that slip up now and then, but there's a point when people start to use the excuses of: "It takes too much time"... "It's too hard"... "I don't feel it's needed all the time if I'm typing a quick message"...

By doing it more often, it gets easier. By doing it frequently, we get faster.

So why use the excuse that you can't, for whatever reason?

I timed myself typing this message. Just a few minutes. I stopped to correct a few things, but it didn't take long. It's just practice. The problem is, people are in too much of a hurry nowadays to practice, or feel a need to improve. "You can read it, so why should I correct it?" You don't have to correct it. But I'd rather if other people judged me based on the content of my words, not how the words are presented.