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the dangerous habit for me is/was to abstract just a little bit more from the direct experience i had in mind. i over-indulged and frequently made things so vague and indeterminate as to have no useful content whatsoever.
it was useful for making my experience more general and more palatable to an audience while getting the psychological satisfaction of supposedly achieving some higher truth than the menial and boorish truths of the everyday. it was also self-protective by means of obscurity.
your posts were inspirational because they were particular (as opposed to “universal”). they were focused on the mundane everyday (hence nichijou-kei [the specific invocation of which is a reference to my first post]).
"i have always thought that showing that «it is possible (realistically) to think this way» is a better way of describing the goal of philosophy than the usual - and usually also misguided - attempt to show that «it is necessary to think that way»." your posting said “try thinking/doing it this way”