If I had two molecules of dopamine to rub together, here is where I would be writing. If only as a place to draft articles to upload somewhere people actually are.
Writing is the sad casualty of my adventure into new realms of pharmacology. And I don’t know if my passion for writing is ever going to come back. I am finding verbal communication more fluid than it was, however, and my appetite is slowly coming back, so perhaps writing will become interesting to me again sometime soon!
I suppose it gives me time to pause and ponder what sociological topics I want to concentrate on in these essays, and to think about ‘my attitude’. I think there is a lot that can be gained by focusing on the positive parts of our society – like connection, innovation and kindness as three examples.
Black hat thinking has its place, and I think the shadows can shine light onto the parts of human behaviour that we value, too.
However, I think people want to move ‘towards’ something that inspires them. Rather than concentrating on all the darkness that is so prevalent today.