Personal Reflection
At first glance, this sounds almost provisional. Careful. Not the truth—just what I think is happening. A hedge. A way to speak without pretending to know everything. It frames writing as observation rather than declaration.
But that modesty is deceptive. Saying this is what I think is happening is an act of exposure. It means you’ve been paying attention long enough to risk being wrong in public. Writing stops being decoration here. It becomes a record. A claim. You’re not describing the world from a distance—you’re placing yourself inside it and saying, this is how it looks from where I stand. That’s not neutrality. That’s accountability.
Maybe writing doesn’t exist to close arguments or settle truth once and for all. Maybe it exists to mark the moment you noticed something and refused to look away. The page holds your best reckoning at the time. Tomorrow may revise it. But today, this is what you’re willing to stand behind.
Reflective Prompt
What are you noticing right now that you haven’t yet admitted out loud?
Memoirs of Madness 