The Honest Perspective Weekly Prompt — 13th- 19th October

Facing the blank page together

Image by Hamza Bounaim on Unsplash

Whether the ideas have slowed to a trickle or you’re just feeling curious and in the mood for a little reflection. Our weekly prompt is an invitation to ruminate on an idea and see what arises.

Be it poetry or prose you’d like to submit to us, or a journal entry for your eyes only, take a moment to pause at some point during your week and set your pen free.

We live in a world that glorifies exhaustion. Productivity is worn like a medal, and rest is treated as a luxury, not a necessity. We chase more — more hours, more achievements, more proof that we are doing enough — even as our bodies beg us to stop.

But what if the real magic pill we’ve been searching for has been waiting for us in the dark all along?

Sleep isn’t just about restoration. It’s about repair, recalibration, and the quiet sorting of everything we’ve taken in — the emotions, the information, the constant noise of modern life. It’s our body’s nightly revolution against burnout. Yet, somehow, we’ve come to see sleep as optional. Something to negotiate. Something to push back until the to-do list is done (which, let’s be honest, it never is).