The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A strong work ethic and enough wealth not to need it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
A spirit of generosity.
Yet one thing cannot be robbed of her futurity: my daughter, Cady. I hope I’ll live long enough that she has some memory of me. Words have a longevity I do not. I had thought I could leave her a series of letters — but what would they really say? ... There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable, is all but past. That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied.
High self-esteem.
A healthy planet.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
It’s really, really nice.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
Ali Abbasi, Keir Starmer, Katie Melua, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen K Amos, Marcus Mumford
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