what's the version of yourself you miss?
there is a version of you that does not exist any more. not because something was wrong with them, but because life moved on and they did not come with you.
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 who you were at a specific time. give them details. what did they wear, what did they care about, what made them laugh. then write about what that version of you had that you do not have now. maybe it was ease, or hope, or a kind of recklessness you have since lost. be honest about whether you could get any of it back, or whether missing it is the only relationship you can have with it now. write about what changed, not in big narrative terms, but in the small daily ways you stopped being that person.
- describe a single day from the life of the version of you that you miss.
- write about what that version believed that you no longer do.
- write a short letter from your current self to that past self.
this is for anyone who sometimes looks at old photos and feels something closer to homesickness than nostalgia. for you if growing up also meant growing away from someone you liked being.