A single memetic sentence is actually a hologram. The whole contains within it the totality. I can go into deep reflections, but a meme expressing the same thing in a single sentence already can generate the totality of my reflection. That is holographic projection of meaning.

A meme is a fragment of the whole, that may - if reflected upon - unlock the whole of the reflection. Like a lock that opens a room. The existence of the lock implies the room behind it.

But there is value in actually turning the key, and exploring the room.

That's what contemplative writing is. The turning of the key. Places like Twitter and Facebook contains a ton of keys. Most people never actively turn the keys. They nod in recognition and move on.

If you hold a bunch of keys but never use them, that is shallow engagement. Sure you hold the key to everything, and may feel you know the world because the keys themselves give you a map of the place - but you haven't actually explored your castle and all the rooms within it. Instead you prefer to stay in your room, where it is familiar and comfortable.

And when you stay there, you become unable to change your mind. Because the room is small.

The castle is vast. The rooms are endless.

But there is another way to view a sentence. As a seed. A person may have no choice but to grow the tree, if the seed is planted. Maybe not as an active process but as spontaneous emergent understandings they don't know where came from, but that carry a recognition - "this seems true because I have seen it before". And they have, they have seen the key.

So then contemplative writing is the conscious turning of the key. But the key may open the room for you anyways, unconsciously.

You may have no choice but to explore. It just takes longer.

When your girlfriend says "It's nothing. I'm fine.", you know there's a mountain of meaning within those four words. That may be a room you don't want to explore. But you will find out what's within regardless. Those four words is a key. You may consciously engage with it, or it might unconsciously ambush you later.