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.
That further lessons await.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion.
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
Getting older doesn’t scare me.
I don’t think I care.
Last week – A303 eastbound carriageway closures.
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
My dad, because he died before I could say goodbye.
When George, Shirlie [the Wham! backing singer, whom Ridgeley dated] and I were knocking about as teenagers.
Sofia Coppola, Shaznay Lewis, Derek Sivers, Ben Okri, Steve Jobs, Alex Hassell
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