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Thursday 30 October 2025

What is one thing you would change about how you started?

Hindsight is a gift you can give somebody else. — asked by Esi

SadieSalford, UK

Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.

6

BaySt Ives, UK

Week one and I have read the leaflet three times, which was two times too many.

5

PerrinNice, FR

Started Thursday. Told one person. Feel faintly ridiculous about how frightened I was.

9

GittaBonn, DE

Started Thursday. Told one person. Feel faintly ridiculous about how frightened I was.

2

WinkleWeymouth, UK

Restarting after eight months away and braced for a judgement that has not come from anybody.

4

BoazHaarlem, NL

What I would tell myself: it becomes ordinary, and ordinary is the good outcome.

7

Rafe The dog does not accept excuses. Mine is the same.

DillyNewport, UK

Week one. Frightened, hopeful, tired. In that order, all day.

5

LarkGalway, IE

Beginning again, third time, and I have stopped counting it as a failure.

8

RohanPune, IN

I would change how much I read at 2am.

8

YannickBrussels, BE

I would tell them to find one person to tell. Just one.

6

ClemmieNorwich, UK

Week one and somebody stayed on a call with me while I did it.

8

IlyaAlmaty, KZ

Week three and I have found this place, which is the actual news.

8

BodilÅlesund, NO

Week one going better than I feared. Mild everything. Waiting for the catch.

8

TiborBratislava, SK

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.

7

KeeleyBlackpool, UK

Week one and it is the not knowing whether this is normal that is hardest.

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