The question
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?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.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
Every single morning the sun comes up and you get to try again.
Be in the moment.
To believe my eyes and not my ears.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Quietly somewhat funny.
Wondering why I can’t sleep.
Both parents, I’ll write the book someday.
There are no more interviews.
My lack of foreign language skills.
People finding out my greatest fear.
Ram Dass, Ed Harris, Bear Grylls, Michael Flatley, Terry Pratchett, Andy Serkis
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