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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.
In 1988, when the final whistle went in the FA Cup final and we beat Liverpool.
When the war was over—whichever war that was.
I am happy now.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
Curious, thoughtful and kind.
All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
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