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.
Stay out of other people’s business.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion.
Life’s too short to take offence.
The more you face shame and stare it in the eyes and talk about it, the less potent it is.
We are not here for long – try not to take everything too seriously.
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
People who aren’t kind enough.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
Dying too young, and spiders.
For bringing positivity to people.
Kind, fun and professional.
Sarah Hadland, Peter Sarsgaard, Hamza Yassin, Marcus Mumford, Meghann Fahy, George H. W. Bush
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