The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
Less time on my phone.
A daily massage.
A small pair of ginger balls.
Healthier food from motorway service stations – I am always going through them late at night and it’s all rubbish.
Life’s too short to take offence.
I bumped into an old schoolteacher and her even more ancient and deaf sister, and she shouted to her, “Remember Esther? Now she writes books … ABOUT HERSELF.”
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
I can always see two points of view, which makes it hard to have a row.
Sorry is such an underrated word – I use it liberally.
Talking about the hardships of my mother’s life – she would not approve.
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