This one ChatGPT chat changed how I see my own life
I wasn’t planning to ask a robot for life advice.
But one evening, sitting on my couch with a cold cup of coffee and a half-finished to-do list, I typed something random into ChatGPT:
“My life’s a mess. Can you fix it?”
It was half a joke, half a cry for help. I didn’t expect much… maybe a few motivational quotes or a list of productivity hacks. But what I got back surprised me.
ChatGPT didn’t just give advice.
It started asking questions. Real, human-sounding questions.
“What does ‘fix’ mean to you?”
That’s how it started.
It didn’t jump into solutions like a self-help book or a therapist trying to sound smart. Instead, it asked me to define what I even meant by “fixing my life.”
And I froze.
Because I didn’t really know. I wanted to be happier, sure. More productive, maybe. But mostly, I wanted to stop feeling like I was constantly behind… like life was this race I never signed up for but somehow had to win.