Slow Days

Feeling contemplative

Thinking deeply and quietly, often about bigger questions.

Watercolor of a window seat at dusk, with a cushion and a closed book, and rooftops and trees under a blue evening sky outside.

Where it sits on the wheel

Contemplative is in the outer ring, under Reflective › Thoughtful.

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A gentle prompt

What question have you been carrying lately? You don’t need to answer it.

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Something to go with it

Journal Prompts

More gentle questions, one at a time, if you’d like to keep going.

Feelings near contemplative

  • Thoughtful (one ring in)

    Contemplative is thoughtful about bigger questions, often quietly and for a long time.

  • Pensive (also under Thoughtful)

    Pensive often has a sad edge; contemplative is calmer, and about bigger questions.

  • Absorbed (also under Thoughtful)

    Absorbed is caught up in a task; contemplative is quiet thinking with no task at all.

About the feelings wheel

Contemplative is one of the 104 words on the Slow Days feelings wheel, and the list of feelings has them all. The wheel isn’t a test or a diagnosis.