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.
To tell the truth.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗
Life’s too short to take offence.
That further lessons await.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
That everything happens for a reason.
I was doing The Seagull with Carey Mulligan and Kristin Scott Thomas on Broadway. I walked out on stage and looked at Carey and said: “I’ve no idea what to say.” It was pretty deep into the run and it took me by surprise.
Losing my mind.
Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.
Nurturing, musical, uncompromising.
The Middle East crisis.
Stimulating in every way.
Sarah Perry, Jason Manford, Charlie Munger, Joseph Fiennes, Clive Myrie, Clare Bailey Mosley
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