Our sunny, cold Tuesday is giving way to gloom as rain and snow roll in. Fall. Winter. The time of year when we can see our breath in the air—if we pay attention. This week’s newsletter prompt turns to the one thing all humans need to survive (besides food and water): oxygen.
As December approaches, so does a season of remembering loved ones who passed during this time. That reflection sparked today’s idea: what if someone you love becomes like the air you breathe—essential, sustaining, impossible to live without?
Inspiration Prompt: Love Like Oxygen
Inspired by the Thai drama Oxygen ออกซิเจน, based on the novel by Chesshire, and the universal experience of missing someone essential, this week’s prompt invites you to explore love—or a person—as being like oxygen.
We all need air to breathe—there’s no escaping that fundamental truth. But what if someone in your life was your oxygen, literally or figuratively? Consider what it means to depend on someone so completely, or to be the one others rely on for emotional survival.
Questions to spark your creativity:
- What does it feel like to need someone as much as you need air?
- How does that dependence shape your choices, your freedom, or your sense of self?
- What happens when that “oxygen” is gone—or when you realize you’ve been someone else’s lifeline all along?
Creative directions to explore:
- A poem about the invisible threads that keep us breathing.
- A short story where love becomes a literal life force.
- A visual piece—collage, illustration, or photography—capturing the fragility of connection.
- A song or script that dramatizes the tension between dependence and independence.
Love, like oxygen, is sustaining, vital, and often taken for granted. How will you bring that truth to life?
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