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A friend has tried to dissuade me from posting in Spanish in these blogs. She says my grammatical errors in Spanish are esthetically challenging for her. (They aren't that bad!) But I go on in both languages because I need to write what I think. Why?
First of all, these are things that don’t come up in light chit-chat. Second they are thoughts that inhabit my brain, and if I don’t express them somehow, my frontal lobes become overpopulated. But lastly, writing is different from other linguistic experiences.
Writing is slower than speaking; one has time to think about forms of expression and to change what didn’t come out right. The logical chain is also different: all the little side comments, topic changes, snickers and chuckles, pouts, pauses, and whimpers are no longer appropriate. (Sometimes chatters make up for this with emotion signs [ :) ] or written laughter (hahahaha), but this is not really writing.) In short, thinking changes when one writes one's thoughts. It is necessary to be more concrete, more logical, and more careful with what one expresses. Emotions have to be elaborated with words.
Also, these blogs are a very nice substitute for a diary. They contain a chronology of one’s brain-streaming, and in my case, since I do social-psychological research, sometimes the kernels I post in these ethers turn into more developed work.
The presence of potential readers is a further reason to post: the little maps on the margins of these pages let me know that someone from far, far away has at least clicked on what I publish here. That person is a remote consciousness that has momentarily linked with my own. Although the communication is generally only one-way, I make up for this by reading other people’s writings, books, articles and blogs. Occasionally someone writes back to me (address: reflexiones@live.com. It is really nice when that happens.
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