Dots are minute little things that otherwise pass by unnoticed, amidst the hectic lives that we lead. As students with extraordinary mental capacity and astute observation skills attuned to grabbing even the most microscopic details of our everyday lives, this groundbreaking essay shall aim to uncover the various important dots of our planet.

A famous man once said, “Good things come in small packages.” I agree, but only to a certain extent to this statement. Pimples – the most common dot of all, pass by unnoticed. They come in small packages (tiny pimples) but can come in large packages (many pimples). Pimples are the dots, commonly thought to be insignificant, which reflect the years of toil and hardship undergone by a person. Pimples can be squeezed; once squeezed, the bitterness of life oozes out and what is left behind is a much happier and satisfied human being. To further substantiate this point, I bring in another famous saying, “The more the merrier.” This saying has its roots in pimples; to break down this complicated saying – the more the pimples, the more bitterness you squeeze out, and the merrier your life will be. Also, did you ever realize that people with pimples are necessarily wiser? Even amongst those with pimples, those with MORE pimples have higher IQs. Of course, one might point out that Albert Einstein, probably the human being with the highest IQ ever, did not have pimples. However, pimples did not exist during his time! It is thus unfair to raise such non-relevant examples and we should instead look around us for examples that prove my point more accurately.

The next dot has its importance well-established in racial and religious historical contexts. Located on the foreheads of a race once discriminated, this particular dot now dominates the global scene and looks set to conquer the world. Since time immemorial, this dot has been in the headlines. Gandhi was responsible for the Great Salt March and the ultimate independence of India. Martin Luther King Jr. sacrificed himself for the sake of black rights not only in the United States, but worldwide too. Usain Bolt holds the Olympic and world records for 100m, 200m and 4x100m events. Barrack Obama sits in presidential office as the 44th president of the United States, coming down in history as the first black president of the most powerful country in the world. The country with the most of the number of red dots, India, is on the rise. It is predicted to become the next biggest economy within the next century after China. This dot currently hogs the limelight on news front-pages and will continue to do so for the rest of the 21st century, so mark my words.

On a more serious note, dots have become a major art movement; if one traces back a few decades, he would find that dots have been used extremely widely in Aboriginal Australia, to create dot paintings. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papunya_Tula for more details. Although this topic may be a bit dry, it is also an important milestone in the rich and glorious history of dots. Moving on, I must bring out the point that many critics of technology think that computer games and the Internet are causing the dilution of arts and culture. However, this is definitely not the case. To bring out a specific example – do not think that dota players nowadays do not know how to appreciate the arts and culture – there is this dota fanatic from Louisiana, U.S., who blogs about dot paintings at this website: http://dotart.blogspot.com/. From his website URL, we can tell that though this guy may be a DOTA addict, he definitely thinks that art Rocks Too, therefore dota-rt, to the extent that he uploads and blogs about the paintings he creates using dots. From here, we can tell that the computer can coexist perfectly with the arts and can in fact influence the rise of art movements. For all we know, the next era for popular art will be known as...Doticism…

Finally, the last dot with undoubted importance is the full-stop. Full-stops mark a completeness and wholeness that cannot be replaced by any other punctuation. ?QUESTION MARKS? are complex to write, and besides, they demonstrate unsure-ness and a shaky attitude; !EXCLAMATION MARKS! are full of emotion and can be ambiguous since it can be written when the writer is in awe, surprise, anger or even delusion. This perhaps explains why all of us have an unnatural tendency to conclude sentences with full-stops rather than anything else.
Furthermore, as a follow-up from the previous paragraph, full-stops are universal symbols of peace and neutrality. In the ancient times, people or countries at war with each other used to send white flags over to indicate truce. Since time immemorial, lovers who have quarreled make up by sending roses or some other pretty flower to each other; those at Bishan send delicious rafflesias to their spouses. In the present, people at loggerheads with each other send SMS-es to say their sorries. In the future, people will wrap and nicely package DOTS to send their sincerest apologies. Do not be surprised if you see “……” in MSN convos – it is just the opposite end’s way of saying “I’m sorry”.

After being revealed the true essentiality of dots, all of us should not treat dots so lightly anymore. I should end of with a quote as all great writer in history do:
The futuristic Cruella de vil in 101 Dalmations very wisely predicted the importance of dots – “Dots, dots, I see dots!” – we should follow in her shoes and worship dots, perhaps even embrace them, so as to enrich our own lives in the coming future.