On writing

Not having written here just for a few days what with my report and everything else, I find it already hard to get myself back to the habit of writing. But once I begin writing here, I wonder what it was all about.
In my head, much knowledge regarding English grammar, idioms, vocabulary and all accumulates almost collecting dust. They are all waiting to be used. If you didn't use what you have acquired, it would be like unspent money you saved all your life when you depart this life.
Learning is something like saving money. If you like savings you also like learning for no special reasons. You are only "saving" your knowledge. If you like spending, you place more importance on using what you have learned. Perhaps you are somewhere between the two extremes.
If I were asked which side is more important, I'd say using is. To use is to live. To learn is just to prepare for living. So after a certain period of learning you must have a period of application. This is what learning is for. But in the course of application, you would be painfully aware that you should have learned more. It is the time for learning again. This way we live circling a spiral upward.
I am writing and using now. This motivates my reading and learning, turning them into life itself.