The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Anxiety. Have I finished this? Will I make the deadline? Could I have done that better? Are the children OK? Is the husband OK? Is the dog OK? Did I leave the oven on?
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2020 source ↗
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
Menopausal anxiety.
My phone and social media.
Almost anything seems super urgent to deal with at 4am. Then I can't remember it in the morning.
My children. My marriage. All those books.
Watching my children play together for hours when they were very young.
Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
Thank You For The Music by Abba.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
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