People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Arrogance, bullying, meanness – just try to be kind, it’s not difficult.
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Needless aggression and bullying.
People who can’t read my mind.
An inability to be authentic.
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View profile →After the birth of both my children, although Manchester United winning the treble in 1999 came pretty close.
Working in a very busy bar in the West End when I was trying to pay my way through drama school. I had to dance in a cage in a vest and cycling shorts to Venus by Bananarama, Greased Lightnin’ and Y.M.C.A. every night. It was excruciating.
Outliving my kids – and rats.
Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
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