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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Offer kindness always.
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Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.
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That your life is only in this very second.
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View profile →The three things I strive for are authenticity, presence and empathy. You’d have to ask my loved ones if I’m pulling them off.
I was the PE technician at my old secondary school, so I had to pump up all the balls, wash all the kits and get the form notes in before morning registration every day.
Mornings. Playing music, fresh coffee, dippy eggs and soldiers, my girlfriend – what’s not to love?
Sounds cliched, but I always wanted to be an actor.
Oh when was the last time I didn’t?! I’m a crier. I cry. All the time.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
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