The way that writing a paragraph about something you think you believe can have you doubting you actually believe in that thing or idea, is incredible. Writing’s greatest superpower might be actually making you confront the fact that what you think is nonsense, after all, if you can’t put your ideas into words, do they exist at all? This is why I choose to write.
Among other reasons, I want to establish a writing habit in 2026 so that I can learn to think. It is almost undeniable that we live in the age of uncommon sense, and incredible examples of this are on display at all times around us. In addition to being slowly coerced into treating uncommon sense as a common occurrence, we are bombarded with information at a rate, and in ways that the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century could not have dreamed of. It is not uncommon for someone to be reading a book, while watching a movie, while constantly checking their phone, scrolling through social media, answering texts and looking up things on search engines. This dearth of attention span in our current generational window consequently leads to every piece of media we consume being crafted to appease our child like focusing abilities, in a sick feedback loop.
What is the answer? Thinking and writing. I hope you will follow me along on this journey.
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