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Writing Prompt: Tell Us About a Door You Almost Walked Through

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Aug 23, 2025
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It can be fun to think about what might have been. What if you had taken that job across the country all those years ago? What would your life look like now? What if you had said yes to that marriage proposal, kept playing in your college noise band, gone to acting school instead of getting your degree in psychology? We want to know about the thing you almost did, but didn’t. What might that have felt like, and do you ever wish you’d had the chance to find out? Share about it in the comments below — and if this gets you writing in your journal tonight, too, all the better…

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