My sister once gave me some good driving advice. She was a terrible driver, but she advised me, from the passenger seat of her car, which I was driving at the time, "If in doubt, don't."
Good advice for driving. But for life? I've adapted her base sentence, preserving the stem and changing the verb:
If in doubt, write.
I've found that this works in almost all cases. Tired of the humdrum work day? Write something for fun. Underwhelmed by the band? Write a message to that effect on the wall of the venue's bathroom stall. Missing someone? Write them a letter.
Writing works. It works out. Explains. Expresses. Fills the gap. Perpetuates the delusion that things can be made sense of. Allows us to face what make us afraid. Tempers our moods, becalms hurt feelings, and lets us empathise with others as well as with ourselves.
My advice to you? If in doubt, write.
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