Stumbled into this old writing prompt that hit me like a ton of bricks

I was scrolling through a dusty folder on my laptop from 2012 and found a prompt about "write a letter to your younger self" - I actually sat down and did it right then at my kitchen table while the kids were napping. Took me 45 minutes and I ended up crying over stuff I thought I'd moved past, has anyone else had a prompt sneak up on them like that?

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troyjackson2d ago

Hang on, @torres.drew, did you just say you thought writing prompts were a waste of time? That one got me. I admit I was kind of in the same boat a few years back, thinking they were just for school kids or people trying to be artsy. But then I ran into a prompt about "what you wish you'd said" and I spent a whole evening writing a letter to my old boss about stuff I let slide for years. It was like a weight I didn't know I was carrying just lifted off me. Makes you think about what else we might be burying without even realizing it, doesn't it?

torres.drew2d ago

Used to think writing prompts were kind of silly honestly (like a waste of time), but I tried one about describing your happiest memory last year and it totally wrecked me. Turns out I had a lot more buried feelings about my grandma than I realized.