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.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Life is never fair.
Never ever think that things are going to turn out all right.
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
Someone to clean my apartment.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
My tendency to be avoidant.
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