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.
Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗
Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We are not here for long – try not to take everything too seriously.
Compare and despair. Comparing yourself with someone else or what someone else is doing or what someone else has is a recipe for sadness. What matters is who you are and what you want.
Want for your brothers and sisters what you want for yourself.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
Appearing on US breakfast radio. I heard the DJ say that after the news we would hear from the author Lincoln Child. I had to choose between making a guy with a mixed-up PR release look like an idiot or pretending to be Lincoln. I pretended.
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