What has your body done that surprised you?

That I am four hundred days into writing these and I have stopped doing it for anyone else.

Slept without waking, which has not happened since roughly the coalition government.

I did the food shop without the mental negotiation about the middle aisle. That has never happened.

Climbed the stairs at the station without stopping halfway. I have been stopping halfway for about four years.

I sat cross-legged on the floor to sort the recycling and did not think about how I would get up.

I sat cross-legged on the floor to sort the recycling and did not think about how I would get up.

My handwriting is neater. I have no theory about this and I refuse to speculate.

Caught myself walking faster than the person in front of me. Small. Enormous.

Nothing good. I noticed I have been avoiding the mirror again.

Honestly? That I have been quietly miserable for a fortnight and have told nobody until this box.

Caught myself walking faster than the person in front of me. Small. Enormous.

That I read a whole chapter without falling asleep.

That I have stopped bracing for the bad three days, because there have not been bad three days in a while.

Caught myself walking faster than the person in front of me. Small. Enormous.