The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?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.
Less time on my phone.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
Every time I go on a plane I feel awful about it. So for me, and everyone in the world, being able to board an electric plane would be really cool.
The ability to teleport. I’d be unstoppable.Would you rather have more sex, money or fame? More than those, I’d like more time.
Someone else to write my books.
Having my family in closer proximity, but that’s what comes with living in another country.
I would be less naive.
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
Trusting someone and being let down.
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