5 Reasons I Think in Lists
Why have I been thinking in lists lately? If I was a trained psychoanalyst or psychiatrist I might be able to figure it out. I am a trained sherpa, chauffeur and chef… aka Mum, so I don’t know. I am going to avoid using bullet points on this one because I think the irony would be too much but know that I am tempted. This is my Friday 5 after all… Here are my theories:
1. As a reader of other blogs, I find long diatribes on vaginas, cleanses or skincare regimes frustrating. I will read about all of those if they are short and sweet. Damn, I will read about carberators and foreskins if they are less than 250 words and in a list. My attention is up for the grabbing on a well-written story. If it is in a list, I can tell quickly if this is something I want to read.
2. I have taken to talking in short bursts with a teenager and a pre-teen in the house. I have very little opportunity to hold their attention. Texting will do it with our daughter (shall I text her to do the dishes?) and unless it is about a video game, Harry Potter or something about sloths right now, our son is uninterested. If I talk in short bursts, they seems to catch on quicker.
3. Everybody is busy and sentences are exhausting – reading and writing them. All those adverbs and pronouns… who has the time?
4. As a mum, I am constantly writing lists of what I need to do in the day (and then losing them because I just can’t find an app that ‘does it’ for me). So after I lose my list, I write another one with less or more on it. They are never the same twice. Lists are part of my everyday so they translate to everything.
5. I think it is the PVR/iPhone mentality. We are so used to having the information now and not wanting to see the ads, never having a moment’s pause, always being entertained but in short bursts. Even songs on the radio are shorter then they were back in my teens. We have trained ourselves to be impatient.
Do you find you think in lists? Do you like or dislike list articles on Facebook or websites? Just curious, but only for a second so give it to me fast.
Number 1: My mom is HUGE into lists and I think I’ve spent my whole life rebelling against the list.
Can’t think of anything else for this list. Sorry, I’m so rusty!
Ha! You are rusty.
Lists just make me end up feeling like a loser, because I’m never able to cross more than 50% off. Sometimes I cheat and add a bunch of stuff I’ve already done, just so I can check them off.
Cheating gets me through the day! Make coffee, pour coffee, drink coffee, repeat. That is 4 right there!
“Adverbs and pronouns…who has the time?” Woman you’re breaking my heart. What was my English degree for dang it? 🙂 But I concur on the lists thing.
P.S. This is the only blog I’ve come across so far where I love how the typewriter font’s been used. So simple but so effective. Bravo I say. Bravo.
Thanks for the compliment. I (pronoun) do not have an English degree. I do; however, have a completely (adverb) tattered commerce degree being used for the sole purpose of reminding my teenager that I am not the idiot she thinks I am.