what did you keep doing because stopping felt like admitting something?
there is a thing you kept doing long past the point it made sense. not because it was working, but because walking away would have meant looking at something you were not ready to see.
every day there's one live question, the same for everyone. answer it anonymously, see what other people said. it's all gone in seven days.
answer today's question →think about something you continued with longer than you should have. a relationship, a job, a habit, a project. write about the moment you first suspected it was no longer right. then write about why you stayed. be specific. what would stopping have meant. what would you have had to admit, to yourself or to others. write the sentence you were avoiding. the one that starts with something like, this means i was wrong, or this means it is over, or this means i wasted those years. let it sit on the page. then write about whether you have said it yet, even quietly.
- write about the thing you kept doing, and the exact admission you were trying to avoid by continuing.
- describe the moment you finally stopped, or if you haven't, what is still keeping you going.
- write about what someone close to you would say they saw, if they were being honest.
this is for people who have ever stayed in something too long and know, somewhere underneath, that the staying was its own kind of hiding.