The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
My parents, for not pursuing an academic career.
To my father, for not telling him the truth when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and going along with the family lie that he had hepatitis, when he knew he didn’t. At the age of 17, I lacked the courage and strength to stand up for what I believed.
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
I would have behaved better to my first wife, and the girl I lived with afterwards. I was always away.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
Comfort, warmth and security.
Recently, when I got out of hospital and into my own bed with my wife and 10-year-old son; we watched some crap television and life had never seemed better.
Samira Ahmed, Gloria Steinem, Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Lucas
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