JH
I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2018 source ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 203 →
Ralf Little
English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer
I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.
Julie Hesmondhalgh
English actress and narrator
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?
More from Jennifer Hudson
View profile →As a human who feels and loves just like everyone else feels and loves.
Around the holidays, because I get to spend them with family and friends.
Professionally, receiving my first Grammy from Whitney Houston.
I always wanted to be a singer.
I’ve loved all my jobs, even when I worked at Burger King.
Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
More on failure & regret
- What disappointment has stayed with you longest? 367 answers
- Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? 209 answers
- What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- When were you most embarrassed? 122 answers
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 35 answers
Also answered this
Adrian Scarborough, Mandy Patinkin, Minnie Driver, Rupert Graves, Steve Pemberton, Paterson Joseph
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject