Tried sitting somewhere recently with nothing. No phone, no music, no podcast.
First few minutes felt genuinely restless. Like something was wrong.
Then it settled.
It's weird that stillness feels like something you have to get through before it becomes okay. It didn't used to feel that way.
Anyone else noticed this? Or found a way around it?
There's something weirdly fun about taking a story you already know and messing with it.
Not analyzing it. Just asking what if something played out differently. Different call, different reaction, different ending entirely.
Been doing small writing sessions around this idea and this weekend's one is built around The Devil Wears Prada as a starting point. People take it wherever they want from there. Some stay close to the original, some go completely off track.
Small group, nothing intense. You don't have to be a writer or anything.
Can share details if anyone's interested.
Easy to say yes in theory.
But then you start tracing everything that came after. The people, the direction things went, even the bad parts that kind of shaped things.
And then it gets complicated.
Maybe you don't actually want to undo it. Maybe you just want to understand why you made it.
Genuinely not sure which one I want most of the time.
Noticed this recently.
You can sit with something for hours and still feel kind of stuck on it. But then you try to write it out, even badly, even just bullet points, and it suddenly makes more sense.
Not full journaling. Just getting it out of your head somehow.
Thinking on its own sort of loops. Writing makes it go somewhere.
Maybe it's just a me thing but curious if others experience this too.
Not talking about networking events or those "so what do you do" conversations.
More like the kind where you're not constantly editing yourself. Where the other person is actually there and not half somewhere else. Where you walk away and actually remember what was said.
I don't know if it's just me but those feel increasingly rare. Maybe it's the spaces we keep ending up in. Maybe it's us. Not sure.
Just curious if others here feel this or if it's always been this way and I'm only noticing it now.