It may be possible that the key to solving some of our problems (or prevent potential problems) is to write about them first. Our best documents, like the Declaration and Constitution, were well written prefaces to our decisions regarding our lives and futures, so why shouldn’t we carry that idea into other aspects of everyday life?
“I am going out to buy a $600 smart phone. The $500 smart phone I bought four months ago is so yesterday. Besides, if I don’t buy one, the other girls will think I’m poor or a square. . . .”
(I’ve often said that the value of “wow” is overrated).
“I’m going to go to the truck supply store and buy some mud flaps with outlines of naked women on them. Sure, my wife won’t like it too much, but the fellas down at the Beer Bunker will get a kick out of it the first time I drive up with those cute ladies hanging from the rear of my truck.”
“My company is going to invent the Use-Less 5000. Folks have been using something else since the dawn of time, but why do things the same old way when you can start all over learning a new way?”
This idea might also work when somebody is convicted of a crime. They should have to write a composition about it and it should become part of their record. No spell checking or ghost writing, either. Just keep it as it comes out of their pencils onto the paper. That way we can get a true glimpse into who is committing our crimes these days. Sure, some of the papers would be brilliant (especially from well-educated criminals), but let’s face facts.
Sometimes our visual media is overcorrected and sugar-coated or exaggerated beyond normalcy. The basic composition equalizes the playing field. If you’re reading this, you already have an opinion of me as the author. That is how it should always be.
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