Write

Thoughts in your head aren’t yours. Someone’s attitudes. Your parents’ fears. Catchphrases from childhood. Voices of exes. Parasite thoughts always move from outside in. Real ones — from inside out. And to tell one from the other, you first have to catch them.

Writing is the net. A thought pinned to paper holds still — you can finally look it in the eye. Start naming what’s going on inside and around you. And you get a say in your life. Naming is a skill, try different viewpoints until you get to the one you like.

Open a note, title it “What I’m thinking” and write everything playing in your head. Garbage comes out first — “why am I doing this”, “what do I even write”. That’s the top layer, the foam. Keep diving. The mind goes quiet and you slip into flow.

A thought in your head is a cloud. The same thought written down is a thing with edges. Unwritten thoughts run on loop. Written ones resolve.

Feels like you’ll be sitting there all night. Turns out — everything fits into a couple of phrases. Once I sat down and poured out everything that had been rattling around in my head for months. A couple of lines remained. They were about what I actually want.

What you wrote three years ago is more honest than what you’ll remember. Memory edits. Paper doesn’t.

Start a channel.