
If someone thinks that they can’t write, for example essays when you’re at school or the short story when you are an adult, it crossed my mind to think that when we speak we are being creative because we don’t plan what we’re going to say and then repeat it word for word now we open our mouths and let it come out. We are naturally creative and otherwise life would be very boring
Naturally we have a general idea of what we’re going to say but we’re not going to have it there word for word
So if we can speak we should also be able to write.
Another idea I had recently was related to a conversation with a friend who said she wouldn’t go for counseling or therapy because she would rather keep her troubles and trauma to herself.
It is as if she thinks there’s a script that she’s in possession of.
But I think if you talk to anyone but especially to therapist or a trained listener you don’t know what you’re going to say until you start talking and different people will evoke different conversations
So although you have your own ideas about your past or present suffering if you talk about it to the right person it will give you a new perspective I think.
Already I have noticed that with different friends I have totally different conversations and one in particular cannot bear it if I sound even the slightest bit emotional or especially sad and he will tell me to go into the kitchen and do the washing up and that will make me feel better but he doesn’t want to know or even to hear on the phone just a tone of my voice when I’m sad or anxious
Going back to the idea of talking to a trained listener.
You might say you would rather talk to a friend but depending on what you want to talk about what’s happened to you in your earlier life or your current life you may find that some of your friends cannot listen to so you end up talking about the price of butter or the way people are stealing eggs from the supermarket
It’s quite a clever method of stealing because you just take two packets of eggs one is the cheapest type often referred to as essential eggs in the most expensive supermarket and then you have your free range and your special kinds of eggs whichever 300% more expensive so you get hypothesis and you swap the exorba put the expensive eggs into the cheap packaging and then when you go to the till you are actually getting the posh eggs for the price of the cheap ones
And I don’t think it’s the poor who are doing this at all because they wouldn’t even know that in Waitrose you can get this about ten of varieties that’s also sorts of prices.
Of course they can’t do that with alcohol!
