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’d be happier being myself younger.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 May 2026 source ↗
I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
I would be less naive.
The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
People singing in the street.
In the back of my mind I just assumed I’d be in a boyband at some point.
Like nothing’s a problem.
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
Snobbishness, superiority, condescension.
Catastrophising.
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