Part of a series about the secret questions we ask ourselves, often without saying them out loud. Why didn’t I trust my gut? Perhaps you’ve asked yourself this afterwards. You look back and think you knew. There was something you noticed. A feeling you had. Something that didn’t quite sit […]
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Part of a series about the secret questions we ask ourselves, often without saying them out loud. When do I get to just live my life? Perhaps you’ve wondered this. Maybe not out loud. Maybe it’s appeared as a fleeting thought while you’re driving, in the shower, lying awake at […]
“Are we nearly there yet?” That childhood question that could test a grown-up’s patience to the limit. Usually followed by, “How much longer?” or “Is it much further?” and, not long after, perhaps the slightly exasperated, “I don’t know!” I was reminded of this recently while thinking about what happens […]
On questioning a life that looks perfectly fine from the outside. There’s a particular kind of unsettling that doesn’t come from anything going wrong. It’s the feeling that can arrive when a life looks entirely fine from the outside — every box ticked, everything holding together — and yet something […]
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is how much time we can spend trying to decide whether something is right for us. We imagine how it might go. We wonder whether it will be worth it. We try to predict how we’ll feel afterwards. Sometimes we end up stuck, […]