Othman Mekhloufi
Why Write?
January 25th, 2025 — Othman Mekhloufi
“The noblest and unquestionably most exceptional aspect of the pen, is its capacity to immortalise brilliance by preserving the thoughts of great men, thereby endowing them license to speak to us across the expanse of eternity even in death.” – IM
“It took me over a decade of writing to realise that one of the primary functions of writing is to allow the writer to forget.
You have a limited number of high level concepts you can store in your mind, and the longer you let them marinate and take up space without producing something creative from them, the less space there is for adjacent and derivative works to be born in your mind so that they may undergo that very same process.
Externalising it is what allows you to discard it to make room for what comes after it.
Until you’ve forgotten more than you know to the point that if something you forgot you wrote becomes relevant once more, you have enough of a vague sense of what you once wrote that you can go and learn from your past self to once more reintegrate it.
And it’s in this process it goes from conception to creation to vocation.” – IM