The One-Sentence Commute #1 2025

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For the next 11 weeks, on Wednesdays, you’ll receive a one-sentence commute prompt. For 2025, all 12 are free for everyone because it’s summer and the air smells nice when it’s warm - at least until sometime in July.

Whether you’re bussing, driving, or walking to work or school or wherever it is you go, these prompts are designed to work with your brain’s relentless desire to find answers.

Ask yourself a question, wait for your mind to answer you.

This week’s question is about humiliation. Might as well start in the belly of the thing.

Your questions:

What was the most humiliating thing that happened recently?

What would happen if I changed the part that was humiliating?

But what really would happen?

Often, our most embarrassing moments are opportunities, which is one of the most annoying parts of life. Why the hell should we have to go through all that to get our neurons firing like chaos bombs, creating all these portals to learning and new thoughts?

But still. You’re looking for the answer under the answer.

Ask yourself the question, follow your mind around until you like the answer. Memorize one sentence, a good sentence.

When you get to a piece of paper and 5 spare minutes, write the line and a paragraph underneath it. Use it to start your next story, essay, or poem.