21 Questions

Easy at the start, more personal by the end.

1. What’s the best thing you’ve eaten this week?
2. Are you a morning person, a night person or neither?
3. What do you do to unwind after a long day?
4. Which song do you never skip?
5. Which town or city feels most like home to you?
6. What’s your go-to comfort film or show?
7. What was the last thing that made you properly laugh?
8. If you had a free Saturday every week, which hobby would you try?
9. Who’s your favourite person to have a long chat with?
10. What’s the best trip you’ve ever taken?
11. What are you surprisingly good at?
12. What reliably improves your mood?
13. Which book, film or album changed how you see things?
14. What’s the bravest thing you’ve done?
15. What’s something you’ve taught yourself?
16. Which trait do you value most in a friend?
17. What’s a small tradition you’d hate to lose?
18. If you could relive one ordinary day from your life, which would it be?
19. Which risk are you glad you took?
20. What do you hope your friends say about you when you’re not there?
21. What’s the one question you wish somebody would ask you?

Warm and sweet, and fine to read out with anyone in earshot.

1. How do you like to spend a slow morning together?
2. What was the first thing you noticed about me?
3. Which of my habits makes you smile every time?
4. What’s your favourite photo of us, and why?
5. Where did we have our best day out?
6. Which meal do we always talk about?
7. What song makes you think of us?
8. What’s the funniest thing that’s happened to us?
9. Which small thing do I do that makes you feel looked after?
10. How do you like us to celebrate a win?
11. Where would you like us to live for a year?
12. What do you think we’re best at as a team?
13. When did you first feel you could be completely yourself around me?
14. What would you like us to try together this year?
15. Which dream of yours might I not know about?
16. What’s the kindest thing I’ve ever said to you?
17. How do you like to be cheered up on a rough day?
18. What do you want our life to feel like in ten years?
19. Which tradition would you like us to keep for good?
20. What did I teach you without meaning to?
21. What’s one thing you want me to remember about today?

For a slow evening with people you trust. Passing is always allowed.

1. What are you looking forward to right now?
2. Which moment from this year are you glad you noticed?
3. Who has influenced the way you think the most?
4. What do you do when you need to think something through?
5. What did you used to worry about that no longer bothers you?
6. Which skill do you admire most in other people?
7. What does a good day look like for you?
8. When do you feel most like yourself?
9. Which lesson did you have to learn the slow way?
10. What are you most curious about at the moment?
11. Which decision changed the direction of your life?
12. What do you wish you’d started earlier?
13. Which of your values would you never bend?
14. What does being a good listener involve?
15. What are you still working on in yourself?
16. Which belief have you changed your mind about?
17. What would you do differently if nobody were judging?
18. What’s the best gift you’ve received that wasn’t an object?
19. What would you like to be remembered for?
20. If you could give your younger self one sentence of advice, what would it be?
21. When you look back on this year, what do you hope it was about?

Nobody has a prepared answer, which is the point.

1. If your left sock could talk, what would it complain about?
2. Which household object is secretly the most powerful?
3. What’s the most useless superpower you’d still be proud of?
4. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever been sure was possible?
5. If you could replace one number with a word, which number and which word?
6. What silly rule would you make if you were in charge for a day?
7. Which mythical creature would make the worst housemate?
8. If you could rename one colour, what would you call it?
9. What would you do if you woke up as a pigeon for a day?
10. If you had to speak in rhyme for a whole day, what would you avoid saying?
11. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever talked yourself into believing?
12. Which type of chair would be the saddest if chairs had feelings?
13. What would the first room in a museum of your life contain?
14. Which animal deserves a much better reputation?
15. What’s your most useless talent, and could you perform it right now?
16. If you could give everyone in the world one tiny gadget, what would it do?
17. Which sound would you swap your doorbell for?
18. If you had to be a piece of furniture for a day, which would you be?
19. What would you name a very small, very grumpy dragon?
20. What’s the most confident guess you’ve ever made and got completely wrong?
21. If you could send one message to the year 3000, what would it say?