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.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
I remember the moment when my overwhelming uneasiness yielded. Seven words from Samuel Beckett, a writer I’ve not even read that well, learned long ago as an undergraduate, began to repeat in my head, and the seemingly impassable sea of uncertainty parted: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” I took a step forward, repeating the phrase over and over: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” And then, at some point, I was through.
People remember how you make them feel more than they remember what you say or do.
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
Impatience and being bossy.
I will be dead, why would I care?
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
Roger McGough, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Phoebe Dynevor, Aung San Suu Kyi, Fearne Cotton, Eleanor Tomlinson
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