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 ↗
To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
To everyone I’ve bored.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
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.
To be looked at.
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.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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