what's the thing you do when the house is empty?
there's a version of you that only appears when the door closes and everyone's gone. it's not a secret exactly. it's just something you never show anyone.
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 what you do when the house is empty. not what you think you should say, but the actual truth. maybe you talk to yourself. maybe you cry, or dance, or sit very still. maybe you eat differently, move differently, breathe differently. write about how your body feels when no one is watching. now ask yourself: what does this private behaviour tell you about what you need. write about the gap between who you are alone and who you are around others. is it a relief, the solitude. or is it something else. don't tidy this up. let it be messy on the page.
- write about the first thing you do when you realise you're truly alone.
- think about what need this private version of you is meeting that your public self can't.
- ask yourself whether you'd want anyone to see this, and what it means that you wouldn't.
this is for anyone who lives differently when they're alone. for people whose private selves feel truer or stranger than the person others know.