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 ↗
Never be rigid in your thinking, be open.
Evolve or perish.
Choose your friends wisely.
That this was true, I owe to Montaigne. I can’t remember when I read, or was told, that he considered it a good thing to spend a short time every day thinking about death, thus getting used to its inevitability and coming to understand that something inevitable is natural and can’t be too bad, but it was in my early teens, and it struck me as a sensible idea. Of course I didn’t set out to think about death in a regular way every day, but I did think about it quite often, and sure enough, it worked.
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.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
Big. Funny. Man.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
Fearne Cotton, Shaznay Lewis, Edmund Hillary, Derek Sivers, Eleanor Tomlinson, Esther Freud
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