The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗
The baby monitor. Followed by my own fake snores.
Cows in the field next door.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
It’s my snoring that keeps Loreto awake!
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
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.
Less work, more living.
I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
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