what did you let define the year that was one bad week?
a bad week can stain a whole year if you let it. sometimes the story you tell about a period of your life is really just the story of its worst few days, repeated until it felt like the whole truth.
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 a year or a season of your life that you've filed under 'bad'. write down the headline you've given it. then try to narrow it down. when did the bad part actually start and end? was it a month, a week, a few days? write the dates if you can. then write about what else happened in that same stretch of time, the parts you forgot or overlooked because the difficult bit was louder. notice whether the story you've been telling is accurate or whether it's been doing the work of a much smaller event. you don't have to rewrite the story. just notice its actual size.
- pick a year you'd call difficult and try to count the actual bad days versus the ones that were just ordinary.
- write about something good that happened in the same period you've labelled as terrible.
- notice whether you've been using one experience to explain a whole chapter of your life, and ask if that's fair.
this is for overthinkers and people who carry heavy narratives. for anyone who suspects they've let a rough patch define something much bigger than it deserves.