The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗
To be getting paid for doing something I love.
Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.
Picking myself back up after very tricky times and trying again.
People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
When the book of my enemy was discounted.
Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
Falling in love is like going to the doctor and being told that you need to put on weight. You feel elated.
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
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