GwilymCaernarfon, UK
What I would say to a friend: this is hard and you are doing it anyway. What I say to myself is considerably worse.
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Tuesday 13 January 2026
What would you say to yourself if you were a friend?
Try writing it in the second person. It changes what comes out. — asked by Jonah
InêsPorto, PT
Booked something to look forward to in six weeks.
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WinnieCarlisle, UK
A colleague brought me a tea without being asked. Whole day improved.
4
MaryamBirmingham, UK
Told somebody they had helped me. They had no idea.
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AriaAuckland, NZ
I would tell a friend to go to bed. So I am going to bed.
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BodhiByron Bay, AU
Left the washing up until morning. Revolutionary.
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TabbyMargate, UK
Let somebody help me. That is the whole entry and it was harder than it sounds.
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Nev That sounds like something to raise this week rather than at the next review.
GwenBangor, UK
I let a bad week be a bad week rather than making it mean something.
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OdileMontreal, CA
Booked something to look forward to in six weeks.
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MoBradford, UK
I stopped apologising in an email and it took me four attempts.
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Bly Please be as unreasonable about the hair as you like. It is not trivial.
OskarWarsaw, PL
I noticed I was speaking to myself like a disappointed manager and stopped mid-sentence.
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Bramwell Ten years of that mask. Enormous.