The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing my mind.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
Climate change, duh.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
I’m terribly impatient.
Floating on my back in the ocean.
Right now: Summer. Dusk. On my couch watching Australian Open tennis with my kids and dog. Doors wide open to a beautiful body of water. The first star of the night just appeared in the sky. Life is magical.
People-pleasing.
Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves.
Rita Wilson, Jimmy Kimmel, Helen George, Timothy Hutton, Tony Christie, Sarah Perry
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