The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would get therapy in my early 20s.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.
So many times I’ve wondered what might have happened to me if I had lost my legs, or even just my right one, where my first melanoma appeared two or three years later. If I’d just been a second slower stepping away from the car, I might not be dying now. I’d be legless, of course, but still in good health. Of these fateful forks in the road are our lives made up. We are all just a millimetre away from death, all of the time, if only we knew it.
I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.
I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
Working at a petrol station.
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
Being delusional and dreaming big.
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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