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.
Life is never fair.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
I believe in this country. I believe in the American people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen, I think there's evil in the world, but I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that the world gets a little better each time.
Offer kindness always.
Don’t make jokes at the expense of Little Mix. They have an ardent fanbase.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
I play Classic FM in the car – emotional music brings me to tears thinking about people I’ve loved and lost.
Each time I gave birth.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
Carlos Acosta, for his incredible achievement in dance.
Kerry Godliman, Minnie Driver, Robert Carlyle, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Lil Nas X, Sharon Corr
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