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 ↗
Sacrifice the self and you will gain it. Serve the self and you will lose it.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
To be led by love and not judgment.
That everything happens for a reason.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
I will be dead, why would I care?
Impatience and being bossy.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
Roger McGough, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Phoebe Dynevor, Aung San Suu Kyi, Fearne Cotton, Eleanor Tomlinson
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