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.
My relationship with drugs.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
The inability to do things for myself.
I haven’t grown up.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
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