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The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
We are too often advised to live life to the fullest. That’s too much pressure. The key is to find joy and poignancy in the quiet and mundane. Life is lived between the so-called big moments.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
Stay out of other people’s business.
To stand up tall and aim for what you want.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
I cry every day. Sometimes out of frustration. I do grieve my mum, so I allow the grief to sit until it’s not there any more.
I tried my best.
That I don’t give myself enough credit.
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