Punctuate for purposeful, powerful, persuasive, productive and profitable communication.  The p’s are saying, “Punctuate, punctuate, punctuate.” That’s my cute way of expressing my thoughts to you on this matter, but here is a quote from the website I will cite at the end of this post:

In the modern milieu of informal writing being self-published in blogs, on social media and in newsletters without competent editing or proofreading, inadequate and incorrect punctuation has become a public issue. Missing commas and full stops (periods) create run-on sentences that either make little sense, or require the reader to re-read in order to understand what the writer intended to communicate. A missing or misplaced apostrophe may be equally confusing or misleading to the reader, and there is still benefit to be gained from correct use of colons, semi-colons, exclamation, question and quotation marks.

When punctuation is repeatedly absent from, or abused in one’s writing, some readers are discouraged from reading further. For those readers, the writer’s attempt to communicate is aborted. For the readers who decide to slog on, the writer’s thoughts may be misunderstood and/or the writer’s literary reputation may suffer loss.

If you are just writing stuff for yourself to read, you really don’t need to publish it anywhere. Just keep and enjoy your private journals.  On the other hand, if you care – as I do – about accurately communicating thoughts to others, then for the sake of the readers we seek to inform or influence, let’s revisit the correct use of punctuation. By ‘re-visit’ I mean take time to review the rules of grammar on the use of punctuation marks, considering the pros and cons of using them correctly. Here is one of the many useful sources you may find online.  Enjoy!  🙂 https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/punctuation/what/fourteen-punctuation-marks.html