Did you ever try to answer imaginary questions? Those questions you’ve only asked yourself. The ones that fly around in your head, but that no one will ever ask you for real? For instance: what’s the most important thing you’ve learned from your previous relationship? Or what’s your silliest childhood memory? The worst thing somebody has ever done to you. The personal feelings you have with this or that song, book, movie…

I ask myself a lot of these questions all the time. I find it helps me structuring my thoughts and reflecting on my opinions and choices. I love to think about what the actual answers are and what I’d say if someone would ask me.

One of most precious questions I’ve ever asked myself concerns my boyfriend. Mostly because I’m still amazed by the answer. There are several possible ways to construct the specific sentence, but it goes a bit like this: what’s the most special thing about Matt? I doubt if anyone will ever bother asking, but today I need the answer to be known.

You see, all my life I’ve only known two kinds of people. more...

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