Take Permission and Commission a Position

There's a thing about writing and not writing. 

There's a thing about reading and not reading. 

There is a thing about exposure and processing and communication. 

And it's this.

The doing of these things gives you permission.

Imagine the scene from a sitcom and a line from a low-status character to a Captain Mannering, or to Captain Blackadder for that matter.

"Permission to observe, Sir".

Permission to observe. That's what this sort of engagement gives you. Writing in particular.

Permission to mind the gap between doing and not doing.

And permission to consider where exactly that ends, and where duty to act begins.