Thirty-One Nights of Questions · Life
Time to slowly look at the road behind you
A journal with one question each night, filling in the days one by one.
The sets are divided by "what lens shall I look at myself through" — Me · Love · Love-and-Hate · Food · Life, five in all.
This sheet is "Life" among them. It asks big questions but doesn't measure — no sorting right from wrong, only seeing again with today's eyes.
How it works
- Before sleep, read the question in that night's box.
- Write whatever comes to mind, within two lines. It doesn't have to be long.
- If you note the date in its box, you'll see the path when you look back later.
- It's fine if you skip a night. Just pick up where you left off.
When · with whom
A night journal to write alone. Especially suits the turn of the year.
Questions about "Life"
- Where along the way do you feel you are right now?
- What did you love as a child?
- What would you like to say to your younger self?
- Which time in your life felt the longest?
- Looking back, is there a time that seems short now, too?
- Was there an encounter that changed you in a big way?
- Is there a path that chance opened up for you?
- Is there a choice you'd like to undo?
- Is there something you gained, too, from a choice you thought was wrong?
- Is there a mistake that stays with you longer than the things you did well?
- What are you good at enduring?
- What do you grow weak in the face of?
- What are you carrying on your shoulders right now?
- Is there anything you could let yourself set down?
- What gets you moving these days?
- What will you be doing ten years from now?
- Is there something you could do today for ten years from now?
- What does living well look like to you?
- Is there something others call good that just isn't for you?
- What have you been learning as you've gone through life?
- Is there something you haven't learned yet?
- Is there something that felt like a waste of your time?
- And the other way around, what time was never a waste?
- What are the things you often put off?
- What does getting older mean to you?
- Have you ever felt that your body isn't what it used to be?
- What do you want to leave behind?
- What would you like the people who know you to remember you for?
- What kind of day was today in your life?
- How would you like to spend tomorrow?
- After these thirty-one nights, have you come to see your life a little differently?


