The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗
When I was just singing with my brothers in our house. I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
Making Bremner, Bird And Fortune: fulfilled at work, happy at home with two young children.
Happiness is planting the vegetables, sleeping with my girlfriend, running, doing my work, sitting by the fire with a book and a glass of wine... I need a reason to be unhappy, but do not need one to be quietly cheerful.
Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).
Making trails and building a tree house.
An arbitrary contrarian.
Lack of purpose.
Kelly Macdonald, Bobby Gillespie, Lupita Nyong'o, Renée Zellweger, Mike Wallace, Patti Smith
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