In dreams, but that’s about it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In dreams, but that’s about it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗
Every time I let my wife drive.
Rolling a quad bike.
I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.
When I rode on the back of a motorbike from London to Rome with my eyes closed the entire way.
As a confident, inspirational and very bubbly person.
Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
Literally can not tell up from down. It's the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body. What's even scarier is since I have no idea where I am in the air, I also have NO idea how I am going to land. Or what I am going to land on. Head/hands/feet back…
When you put others before yourself, and you’d do anything for them.
Yeah, I say put mental health first because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through it.
Yes. Today has been really stressful. We had a workout this morning. It went okay. And then just that five and a half hour wait or something. I was just shaking, could barely nap. I've just never felt like this going into a competition before. And I tried to go out here and have fun. And warm up in the back went a little bit better. But then once I came out here, I was like, "No, mental is not there. So I just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself."
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