I’d be remiss if I *didn’t* launch into a spontaneous essay on the subject at opportune time.
The audience isn’t solely you or me seeing myself produce writing. [I am usually my primary audience when I write as I like seeing what comes out when inspired]
I’m always cognizant of total possible audience in a conversation.
So I see the globe? I know it’s a worldwide potential audience.
In this group? Potential audience of 19K plus whoever might see it in the future.
It’s exponential thinking. Some future person may see our conversation, believe “oh no, Manolo seemed to be in a fixed past -focused mindset like me but these words of Kenneth helped me see something I didn’t before”
Do I really ‘believe’ that’ll happen? I don’t think about that much as it doesn’t matter if it will or won’t. Like you’d said about being certain, that’s what it looks like when I do it and I’m always doing it. [it annoys people sometimes but that’s their problem]