Returning to writing after a long hiatus is a peculiar experience. It does not feel like starting over, but like meeting an old friend under new conditions. After three years without publishing in my Psychology Today column, I return today to "The Memory Factory" with the sense of reopening a space that was never abandoned—only quiet, like memories we do not revisit often but that continue to shape us.

Writing is a developmental practice. Beyond improving style or clarity, it exercises core psychological operations: attention, selection, organization, and meaning-making. To write is........

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