The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
Impatient, funny, worrier.
Passionate, loving, driven.
Alchemy. Love. Resilience.
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
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.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Unbending opinions.
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