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My Biggest Case for Writing, Even if You’re Not Getting Read (Yet)
How to introduce read-write privileges to your life
Many of you might remember burning CDs back in the day. A CD-R disc could only be recorded once, after which point it was read-only. However, a CD-RW disc could be erased and recorded over many times. This meant it had read-write privileges.
I remember how excited I was to make my own CDs in the early 2000s. My Dad showed me the barely noticeable “line” between the recorded data and unrecorded data. I always felt like I was “wasting” the CD if this line was only halfway across the disc.
When you have introspective thoughts about your emotions or life strategy, these are read-only thoughts. They cannot be altered, because they are not interfacing with anything or anyone, except yourself. This is how circumstantial depression starts. Your thoughts reach dead-end neural pathways and keep going on an eternal feedback loop.
For example, “I can’t improve my life, because of this. But wait, I could do this!… nope, I can’t do that either.”
“If only I had more money…”
“If only I had the right connections…”
“If only I had a strong conviction or sense of direction…”
