what did you outlast that nearly took you?
there was a time when you were not sure you would make it through. but you did. that deserves more than silence.
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 →write about the thing that nearly took you. you do not have to tell the full story. just name it, or describe how it felt in your body at its worst. then write about how you got through it. not the inspirational version, the real one. was it messy. did you do it badly. did you just hold on until it passed. write about the cost of surviving it, the things it changed in you, the parts of yourself that are different now. then write one line about what you want to say to the person you were in the middle of it. keep it simple.
- write about the hardest single day inside the thing you survived, and how you got to the next one.
- describe what changed in you that never changed back.
- write to the version of yourself who was in the worst of it, and tell them what happened next.
this is for someone who survived something quietly and has never really been asked to talk about what it took.