What is the purpose of posting?

What is the purpose of posting?
What is the purpose of writing?
The reason I suddenly felt like writing an article about this is that lately, I have been seeing many posts written by all of you about "posting" itself.

Of course, I don't think it's strictly necessary to put into words why we post, but the thoughts shared by everyone in their articles are each so interesting—so I decided to take this opportunity to explore my own "what for?"

First, I would like to introduce a few articles by other noters.

First is an article by Yasu (Yasushi Ueda).
"Daily posting to discover new ideas".

Yasu, whose deep love for writing comes through in every article I read, says this in his piece:

That's interesting. Yasu fully advocates for the state of "not being able to write" by continuing to post.
You post and pour out everything you have accumulated until then, emptying yourself. Only then does the learning required to create new posts emerge... he says.
Words like "growth" and "metabolism" came to mind, and as I read it, I felt a bit like I was shedding my skin.

Next, I would like to introduce an article by Satoru Aragaki | Gentle Person Increasing Lab.
"What I felt after posting on note for 90 consecutive days".

While I am sure Satoru has the grand goal of "increasing the number of gentle people" through his posts, he also says this in his article:

This is something Satoru practiced after being inspired by a talk by noter Hiroomi Sueyoshi at an online seminar he attended.
The quote below is Sueyoshi-san's words introduced in the article.

It really made me think.
An article reflects a person's way of thinking and their thoughts—in other words, "the person themselves." Therefore, the more you accumulate, the more that "persona" is drawn out.
In the society of the future, that online persona or personality will become important. So, posting is more than "just posting." That sentiment really came through.

In my own sense, rather than "writing on note" or "reading," it feels more accurate to say I am "living on note."
I feel that "Crystalulu," which is not my real name, is a real personality that exists separately from me in the flesh.
"Migration." "Transplantation."
They were completely unexpected, yet convincing keywords.

Hiroomi Sueyoshi's article "Let's advance migration to online space" was also wonderful, so... I will post it below!

Lastly, one more person. Please let me introduce a
tweet by Hoshi no Migiwa.

It is a short tweet, so I will introduce the whole thing.

It is not an article written with the intention of answering why we post, but I quoted it because I felt it showed an attitude toward facing one's posts.
Above all, I just wanted to share it.

I will never forget the shock I felt when I encountered this tweet.
I myself have always cherished the feeling of being grateful for every word I create, but I had never imagined that someone would be conscious of the "words they didn't choose" and tweet about them in this way.

Since encountering this post, I have also come to cherish the "words I didn't choose." Because I have come to cherish a far greater volume of words than before... I feel like I have grown a little as a person!
Hoshi no Nagisa-san, thank you once again, truly.

It is difficult and perhaps presumptuous to replace this tweet, which gave me such a great shock, with a single word, but borrowing from the author's own comment, let me assign it the word "responsibility."
To post is to take "responsibility" for what you have written and the words you have chosen.

"Growth," "metabolism."
"Migration," "transplantation."
"Responsibility."

This is just my own arbitrary interpretation put into words... but in any case, I feel that everyone has their own stance and thoughts regarding posting.
Everyone is different, and everyone is good.

Now then, what does posting mean to me personally?
Two things came to mind naturally.

One is "to know."
I wrote about this in an article a little while ago, but in the four months since I started note, my way of writing has changed significantly.
When I first started note, I wrote articles with the intention of "conveying my own thoughts," but that has gradually shifted to a style of "starting to write an article without seeing the conclusion at all."
If the conclusion is decided, I can structure the text aiming for that and write it more or less as planned, but when I start writing without seeing the conclusion, I have no choice but to wait to be led to it naturally... the slightly troublesome part is that I never know when it will be finished.

Even so, I just don't feel like writing about things where the conclusion is already decided anymore.
Rather, it is interesting to be led to the answer while writing, and I am drawn to the fact that by writing, things I didn't know before and things I never imagined are being input into me one after another.
Generally, writing is categorized as output, but for me right now, posting is input. By writing, the information I need comes to me. I can "know."
That is the meaning of posting for me.

The other meaning, to use an analogy, would be "taking a shower."
Taking a shower of words.
Washing myself clean.

I wrote that posting is input, but if I don't try to force words out of myself and instead just "wait," words rain down from the outside.
They pour down on my body, just like a shower.
And I wash my body with them. I make it clean.
The water of words, of course, soaks into my inside as well, so it washes my inside too. It makes it clean.

I always try to feel that "shower" as explicitly and visually as possible.
When I do that, the more I write, the more my body feels at ease. It becomes cleaner.
If I accidentally forget to "visualize" and just write as if squeezing out words, I get exhausted. It's interesting, isn't it?

Writing is a flow.
A flow of sound. A flow of characters. A flow of the heart. A flow of thought.
Even if you don't use my method of waiting for words to rain down from the outside, output itself is a flow of words.
It is like a stream overflowing and flowing from your own thoughts and heart.
Just by trying to visualize that flow, your body will feel surprisingly lighter.
It is a very simple thing, so if you like, please try using it as a reference, just like the articles of the four people I introduced.

There is a lot flowing today too! Everyone's words. Into the great river that is note.
Reading them is also a form of ritual bathing for me, a way of "taking a shower."
Letting the sound of a gentle flow resonate in my chest, being struck by a powerful flow, and sometimes seeing the outpouring of painful words being purified by flowing... that is what I see.
Many things flow inside and outside of my body.
That is truly precious.
Ah...!

Another meaning for why I post. There was one more very, very important meaning!
If I hadn't posted—.

I wouldn't have met all of you!
I wouldn't have connected!

Just that alone makes me think, I'm so glad I posted!
That person, and that person, and that person, and that person...!
I met you because I posted. I'm so glad I met you!
That is truly an "irreplaceable value of posting"!

Huh?
My body is starting to feel incredibly light...

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