The question
What accomplishment matters most to 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.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
I am a terrible driver, so not having killed myself or anyone else, so far.
Coming back to work after being ill. A year ago I couldn't see that happening. I am still pinching myself.
Turning my life around. Seeing the level of criminality I was involved with, and coming to the realisation that it was not the life that I should be leading.
Being able to write books that entertain people around the world.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
Oversharing my personal life, but here we are, oversharing!
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
Unbending opinions.
“Oh, she giggled, didn’t she?”
Simon Mayo, Mo Gilligan, Lupita Nyong'o, Armistead Maupin, Ralf Little, Jenna Coleman
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