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Why do I write? - by Neeraj - Thinking mold

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The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

1. To forget. I write to forget more than to remember. Incidents, people, emotion but especially ideas. I would go back to my writings sometimes and think. When and how did I even write that? Most ideas are evolving. But they evolve only after you have put them on paper. Because that version is on paper and now you can build a new, better version of it. Also, mind that I don’t write to forget intentionally. It’s something I have observed after writing for a short period of one year or so. When I go back to see my old writings, I forget that I had these ideas and perspectives. That I used to…

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