The world is your cliffnote

Some thoughts I am thinking of right now (Write Now!), at 2:00am on a Thursday, which are not quite related:

• Reading others' shorthand notes forces you to use creative associations.
• Sometimes long dissertations can take away from your imagination and stifle your ability to draw your own conclusions.  No one should ever take away your ability to draw your own conclusions.
• The potency of your thinking comes from how you interpret things, based on a mental framework you have been shaping all your life through your own experiences, not your ability to "make up things."
• People have the wrong idea about understanding others.  It's not how much they know about you but how much you know about them knowing about you.
• Let's not pretend that all of our thoughts, trivial and great, are for posterity's sake. Let's realize that they are.
• I am twenty-six years old.