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Tuesday 29 October 2024

What is one thing you would change about how you started?

Hindsight is a gift you can give somebody else. — asked by Esi

FitzLimerick, IE

Week one. Frightened, hopeful, tired. In that order, all day.

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GwythFishguard, UK

Week one, night shifts, and I could not work out which day my week began.

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OdileMontreal, CA

Beginning again, third time, and I have stopped counting it as a failure.

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RayBarnsley, UK

Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.

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MableBolton, UK

I would change how much I read at 2am.

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IlseMaastricht, NL

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

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BibiRabat, MA

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

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TasnimBradford, UK

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.

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Osric Sounds like a good GP. Hold onto them.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

It is going all right. That is a strange sentence to be able to write.

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LeifTrondheim, NO

Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.

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Ned That is a good one. Thank you for putting it down.

TobinCork, IE

I would say: the obvious question is the right question, and nobody here sighs.

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Ida That is a real milestone and it has no number attached, which is the best kind.

PerlaManila, PH

I would change how much I read at 2am.

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TildaCambridge, UK

Started at sixty-two and I feel late to everything, and everybody here has been lovely about that.

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SoniaValencia, ES

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.

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GroverPortland, ME

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

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NolCork, IE

What I would tell myself: it becomes ordinary, and ordinary is the good outcome.

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