The Invisible Prompt

“Write the first thing that comes to mind,” Eric thought to himself. 

Then he starts to write the first thing that comes to mind but he fears he will be discovered because of that. He most likely won’t write the first thing that comes to mind all the way through until the end and he most definitely won’t start to write the first thing that comes to mind while thinking maybe he wrote it already. He will discover that the “first thing” is the first thing he writes and not the second thing he thought about when the first thing had already been written. If he needed to start with the second thought that came to mind he would write the first thing that came to mind which was “write the first thing that comes to mind.” Without actually writing it he will deny the second thought – that he already wrote it down. The first thought came about as quick as the second thought did which could’ve been the first thing written as the first thought or no thought at all, if he didn’t write it. The second thought being the same as the first thing, Eric thought to himself the first thing that came to mind was simply “that”, and he could not change that in an instant. He was thinking too much about whether there was a difference between this thought and that thought or that thought and this thing. There most definitely was a difference. Because that thought was this…that this thought thing is more about the question “what should I write” instead of an answer to “write the first thing that comes to mind.” This made three thoughts come to mind that he could write about first.