The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?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.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.
Intermittent laziness.
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
Canadians are trained to say sorry to almost everything and everyone.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
That I didn’t go to Turkey during the pandemic for one of those male hair treatments.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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