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Lose every photo you have, or every message. Know the exact date you die, or how. A year alone in the Arctic, or a year where nobody speaks your language.
Heavier than Hard in places, but blunter — these are shocks rather than dilemmas.
spend a year alone in the Arctic or spend a year where nobody speaks your language?
lose every photo you have or lose every message you have?
know the exact date you die or know how you die?
never sleep again but never be tired or sleep twelve hours a day?
relive your worst year or skip your best one?
lose your hearing or lose your sight?
be trapped in an elevator for a day or in a lift-less building for a week?
give up every possession or give up every contact?
live in total silence or in constant noise?
be feared by everyone or pitied by everyone?
be the last person on earth or one of ten?
give up your name or give up your face?
be awake through something terrible or asleep through something wonderful?
start again in a country you don't know or stay where everything reminds you?
have your memory rewritten kindly or keep it exactly?
be feared and safe or loved and vulnerable?
survive alone for a year or with someone who dislikes you?
watch a place you love be demolished or watch it slowly become somewhere you no longer recognise?
be forgotten by everyone who loves you or remember everyone who has forgotten you?
lose the ability to read or lose the ability to be understood when you speak?
live forty good years or eighty ordinary ones?
know a secret that would ruin a friend or have them know one about you?
be right about something terrible and ignored or be wrong and believed?
spend a decade in a place with no seasons or a decade somewhere the winter lasts nine months?
never see the sea again or never see a forest again?
be exiled from your country and safe or stay and be watched?
lose ten years of memories or lose the ability to form new ones for a year?
have every promise made to you broken or break every promise you make?
know what people say about you when you leave or never know anything about yourself that you cannot see?
live in a house you hate with people you love or a house you love, alone?
outlive everyone your age or be the first of your friends to go?
be blamed for something you did not do and never cleared or get away with something you did and carry it?
lose your sense of smell and taste permanently or lose your sense of touch in your hands?
give up music for the rest of your life or give up every book?
have one year of complete happiness, then know it will never return or have thirty steady years that never rise above fine?
live with constant mild pain or with an hour of severe pain once a month?
see your own future and be unable to speak of it or hear someone else's and be obliged to warn them?
never be able to leave your town again or never be able to stay anywhere longer than a year?
lose your job and your reputation in a single day or lose them slowly across ten years?
be unable to cry or be unable to stop, once a week, for an hour?
never be touched again or be touched constantly by strangers?
forget a person you loved completely or remember them and know they forgot you?
be told the worst thing about yourself, accurately or never be told anything but kindness?
be permanently mistrusted by people you have never met or permanently trusted by people who should not trust you?
spend five years in a comfortable room with no company or five years of hard labour surrounded by people?
know the exact moment you peaked, afterwards or never know whether you have peaked?
lose the use of your legs or lose the use of your hands?
live in a world with no new music or no new stories?
be the only one who remembers a lost language or be the last person who speaks it and be unable to teach it?
have a child never understand you or never understand them?
be unable to sleep in the same place twice or be unable to leave one place for a decade?
be deeply admired for work you know is poor or do excellent work nobody ever sees?
have every apology you give rejected or never be owed one?
live a life with no risk and no surprise or a life of constant risk and occasional ruin?
be trapped in a country whose laws you cannot learn or be free in one whose people will never accept you?
lose all your savings overnight or lose your ability to earn and keep the savings?
be permanently alone but understood by one distant person or surrounded by people who misread you completely?
give up the last ten years of your life to add ten good ones now or keep the last ten and live the ones you get?
have your worst hour broadcast once or your dullest year broadcast continuously?
wake every day not knowing where you are or wake every day knowing exactly, forever, in the same room?
have your memory of one person erased to spare you grief or keep the grief entirely?
be unable to feel joy or unable to feel calm?
hear every unkind thought aimed at you or never hear a kind one said behind your back?
live thirty years underground with light and company or thirty years on the surface, alone, in the open?
never be believed when you tell the truth or always be believed when you lie, including by yourself?
lose a friendship to a misunderstanding you could fix by admitting something shameful or keep the shame and lose the friend?
be responsible for a small disaster nobody links to you or be blamed loudly for one you prevented?
live where it is always four in the afternoon or always four in the morning?
give up your ability to make choices for a year or give up a year of your memories and choose freely?
be stranded somewhere beautiful with no way to tell anyone or somewhere ugly with a phone that only receives?
know that nothing you do will matter and be happy or believe everything matters and be exhausted?
lose every skill you have and keep your health or keep every skill and lose your health slowly?
be the person who delivers bad news for a living or the person who receives it, always first?
have your name attached to someone else's failure or have someone else's name on your success?
live a hundred years with no one who knew you as a child or forty years surrounded by people who only know that version?
never be able to return to a place you were happy or return and find it unchanged while you are not?
give up the language you dream in or give up the language you argue in?
spend every evening alone and every day admired or every evening in company and every day ignored?
lose all photographs of your childhood or lose everyone who could tell you about it?
be unable to leave a relationship you have outgrown or leave every one at the first difficulty?
know your children's futures or know your parents' regrets?
have one year wiped from every record, including your own memory or have it recorded in detail and shown to anyone who asks?
survive something that kills everyone near you or die in a way that saves them?
be permanently two hours behind everyone you know or permanently a decade ahead and unable to explain?
live in a body that never tires and a mind that never rests or a mind at peace and a body that fails early?
have your greatest fear confirmed or have every small worry come true instead?
lose the sound of one specific voice from your memory or keep it and be unable to hear it without pain?
be the only survivor and be interviewed forever or be presumed lost and left in peace somewhere far away?
watch everyone you know make the same mistake and be unable to warn them or be warned about your own and not believe it?
spend twenty years building something that is dismantled in a day or spend a day on something that outlives you and is credited elsewhere?
have every choice made for you well or make every choice yourself and get most of them wrong?
be honest and lose most of your friends or be tactful and never be fully known by any of them?
live where you are legally invisible or live where every movement is recorded and safe?
have your grief last five years at full strength or thirty years at a quarter?
give up the possibility of ever being surprised again or give up the possibility of ever feeling safe again?
be replaced at work by someone better and know it or hold the job and know you are the reason it is failing?
be forced to move every three years for the rest of your life or stay in one street and watch it empty?
never forgive one person or be forgiven by nobody for anything?
carry one regret clearly for fifty years or carry a vague unease and never identify it?
know exactly how much time you have left and tell nobody or tell everyone and be treated differently from that day?
Hard is more difficult. Extreme is more uncomfortable.
No. It's bleak, not gory.
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