CC
Trusting some men.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 203 →
Burt Reynolds
American actor
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
Jessica Hynes
British actress and writer
I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.
Rita Ora
British singer-songwriter
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
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.
More from Charlotte Church
View profile →It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
In the first lockdown. Obviously, there was terrible grief and sadness and fear around, but there was also this reclaiming for nature. I was constantly at my allotment with the big kids and my husband.
Weakness – not to be confused with sensitivity, which is a superpower.
When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
The outcome of the Leveson inquiry.
A shimmering bioluminescence that lights up each cell.
More on failure & regret
- What disappointment has stayed with you longest? 367 answers
- Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? 209 answers
- What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- When were you most embarrassed? 122 answers
- How has a setback or failure set you up for later success? 69 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 35 answers
Also answered this
Sofie Gråbøl, Edward Fox, Riz Ahmed, Eddie Marsan, Alison Steadman, Burt Reynolds
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject