The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗
The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.
The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
My parents, for not pursuing an academic career.
To the people who, because of my career, I cannot spend time with. I have to be selfish, unfortunately.
To be looked at.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
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