The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 December 2025 source ↗
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
To be inquisitive.
Time blindness.
Six months ago, I decided to move house. I got a skip, cleared everything out and then thought: “Why am I doing this?” So I remained, and I’m glad I did.
To have made people healthier and happier.
That they were loved.
Optimistic, nurturing, enquiring.
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