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.
You’re more capable than you think.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
One’s created sense of self is not who you are. The present moment is all we have.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
You are good enough.
To stand up tall and aim for what you want.
Good values and a lot of money.
My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
A Human Touch massage chair in every house.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
Pure happiness.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
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