i always find myself curious as to why titles are optional. just in case? just in case your thoughts have become the rubber band ball full everything your english teacher told you to avoid. a mess suffocated by confusion and surrounded by insecurities. a reckless train of thoughts leading no where because how can you have a final destination when you dont have the first stop? and maybe you forgot to add punctuation or even spell punctuation right, so you decide that your thoughts shouldn't be titled. how do you title something so wrong? thats where you are wrong. nothing is wrong until you make it wrong. everything is right when it is first created, when the first word is scribbled onto the paper, the first word is typed... its all write. or maybe its rong. you cant tell the difference because your thoughts have become that tangled mess of cords under your desk. you want to fix it, untangle all the knots... but where do you start? is there a start? maybe once you start, you wont be able to stop. forever stuck untangling cords that you wont remember two weeks later. why waste your time? this is all wrong anyways, write?


because. you cant just leave the cords a mess. you remember your dad telling you as a kid that tangles can lead to house fires. or maybe it was that lighting a match and placing it on carpet could burn the house down. either way, you must untangle those cords. you slowly start to tug at a black knot, only to find it connected to a red wire, which is snagged on your desk. you pull harder and harder, and bam. your house is burnt to a crisp. and then you realize why titles are optional.

who would read your writing if you titled it "cords and house fires"?