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''You have to care enough about what you're reading to find the motivation to write about it.'' This feels validating. Sometimes, when I write to make sense of the world, without having to intend to share my writing afterward, I feel almost guilty, thinking it's just ''detachment-as-intellectualization'' and that I should be doing something more concrete in the ''real world'', be it educating others or getting involved in various other forms of activism. But no, it's true, writing IS caring. But also, as Ursula K. LeGuin said ''“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.” So there's a middle ground to all of this.

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