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.
To be here in this one moment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2025 source ↗
A close, loving family and work position in society which is meaningful, which is about making the world a better place rather than getting a bigger - having a bigger bank account.
To trust in the process.
The world doesn’t consist of bad and good people; it consists of people seeing things in a different way.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
Every morning when I go into our three-year-old’s room. He’s so happy to see you, it’s a moment of heaven.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
As someone who was kind.
Absolutely none. I’ve had three run-ups at Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and I conclude it must be boring because I’ve never finished it.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
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