🌿 Beautiful Questions: Existential Edition
Beautiful questions have a way of shaping not just our days, but the arc of our lives. They are companions meant to linger, to stretch us, to return uninvited at inconvenient hours, bearing inconvenient truths.
These seventeen questions are the brutal, quiet knives that reach into the folds of your identity, your fear, your longing and your loss and ask who you are when no one’s watching, and what still matters when everything else falls away?
Sit with them. Squirm under them.
And then let them do their slow, holy work.
17 Questions For Looking Deeply at Life
#1 Have you confused momentum for meaning?
#2 Will you ever know yourself fully? Will anyone else?
#3 What parts of yourself have you exiled in order to survive?
#4 How often do you mistake what's comfortable for what's true?
#5 How much of your life is shaped by fear disguised as practicality?
#6 Who are you when you're not performing for anyone (yourself included)?
#7 If you met yourself as a stranger, would you feel seen or would you walk away?
#8 What is the one deep, quiet truth you already know but haven't dared to admit?
#9 Would you still live the way you do if you knew no one would ever remember you?
#10 If nothing is guaranteed (not love, not justice, not time) what will you live for anyway?
#11 Can you live fully knowing that everything and everyone you love will one day be lost?
#12 What are you willing to do to stay awake and human in a world that rewards numbness?
#13 If you stopped needing life to make sense, what kind of freedom might become possible?
#14 If everything you believe about yourself is a story, who, or what, is the one doing the telling?
#15 What is the one thing you are unwilling to question because the answer might change everything?
#16 What if the person you're trying so hard to become is just another way of avoiding being yourself?
#17 What parts of your suffering do you secretly cling to because without them you wouldn't know who you are?