The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Everything: I worry about whether the window frames need replacing, did I answer that email, how long my face is going to hold up, world peace, poverty…
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 September 2021 source ↗
I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!
The light in my neighbours’ kitchen because they still haven’t put a blind up.
I’ve been awake almost my entire life. I have had insomnia since I was a child.
Wondering if I've turned the gas off.
Like being three and dancing, giddy with joy.
I don’t care if I’m not remembered.
Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
A society that leans into sustainability and not growth.
My dad’s parents in Ghana, for not spending more time with them.
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