I'm learning that writing is an excellent way to think. By writing, you are affording yourself the opportunity to come face to face with the dialogue and feelings you store inside. I have been trying to embrace this process more often.

For a really long time, I’ve kept a lot within. I didn’t write. To be honest, I barely even spoke. As silly as this may sound, I found some resemblance of a voice when I started using Twitter/X.

The concept is simple. If someone hasn’t ever materialized an idea or a feeling before, it’ll come across in how they communicate that idea or feeling. Obvious, I know. But it’s true. And its truth is a powerful thing to understand. When I ramble, I'm workshopping an idea that I haven't articulated enough yet. Writing is a great medium for rambling, because it forces you to stare at the idea or feeling with greater permanence.

"Is this really what I mean?", "is this the best way to communicate this?", "is this worth communicating?". I navigate these questions when I write.

This is the difference between someone who tends to ramble and someone who can communicate clearly in my opinion. Once you’ve put your ideas in the arena time and time again, through the constant skirmishes, the ideas are refined and crystallized further. If they’re rubbish, they should be disposed of or workshopped. Ideas that constantly win duels are sharpened.

The more and more you speak to something, the more you allow for the something to breathe. Every time it enters the real, tangible, physical world, whether through writing, or verbalization, or even through art or the creation of something — it ricochets and either brings back clarity, or even more questions. Give an idea or feeling enough oxygen, and it’ll develop a life of its own.