Writing vs. Thinking

1. Writing vs. Thinking. I don’t know. It’s really weird. I think a lot. I think that thinking…helps? But there have been so many things that thinking does absolutely nothing. It doesn’t solve anything. But writing somehow does? Somehow the truth comes out. And I see things more clearly. The best idea I might have about it is how when you’re thinking, I like to think, it’s like you’re swimming in your thoughts, and nothing actually seems clear or pops out at you. With writing it’s different. You write a topic and you just write about it. And it’s not even that you can’t think concentratedly. It’s a phenomenon to me just as much as I’m writing about it, and maybe as it is to you. I don’t get it either, it’s just the way it is, to me.

2. Same with talking. It doesn’t really solve things to me a lot of the time. Especially if I just tell my friends something, and they don’t have any input. With writing, maybe it’s just that you’re forced to play that “second position” as well, and it’s unsatisfying to write something without a conclusion, so you’re forced to write a conclusion, and you see the evidence you presented, more clearly. But it still doesn’t make sense, why it works so well, but the other two options don’t, because you still lay out evidence with talking or thinking, and both you can do very concentratedly, which is why I say it’s still magical.