Q36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.

One “problem” or rather a situation I can’t quite decide on is whether to remain longer in Sydney or just pack up and return to Singapore immediately or even perhaps Hong Kong where I have more career opportunities. There are many factors to consider and I’ve been tossing the situation around in my mind for the past few months. If I leave Australia now, I’ll be giving up some things which I spent a lot of time, money and effort to get. At the same time, I’m asking myself if it’s worth hanging on to those things. Anyway, it’s a big decision and I have to think it through carefully before I take any action, if any. Because it’s one of those situations where there is no way to turn back. In Chinese we would say, 没有回頭路.  Decisions, decisions, decisions.

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And so I’ve come to the end of the 36 questions at the tail end of 2018. Some questions I wouldn’t be comfortable in answering in front of a stranger, as was the point of this series of questions, i.e. to bring two strangers closer. But this might be an interesting game to play over a dinner party among close friends, or while sitting around a campfire.