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.
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I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
I might have carried on doing The Voice.
I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.
Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.
Having regrets.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Cruelty to animals or children.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.
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