Questions To Make You Think Twice Novels & Stories

You can start there. I nod slowly. “Finally, someone who makes sense.” Me: I’ll try this. Thanks. I exit the forum, then immediately type: ‘Random fun questions to ask a friend about themselves.’ Enter. My screen floods with suggestions, lists of icebreakers, “cute couple” quizzes, whole threads about date ideas, random memes sprinkled in. I scroll. And scroll. And scroll. “Oh. That’s actually a good question. I’ll keep that.” Next scroll. “That’s funny… but if I ask it, will I sound weird?”

I read the email twice and closed it and went to pick up the children from school. I thought about it for a month. Not continuously. Not in the way that required active management, the thing I had learned to distinguish from genuine consideration. It moved through my thinking the way significant questions moved, appearing in odd moments, in the shower, while driving, in the specific window between finishing one task and starting the next. The question sitting in the background running its process. A memoir was different from a speech.