The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Loving, sincere, honest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Curious, confident, cheerful.
Big. Funny. Man.
Lovely but useless.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
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