The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
Curious, energetic, droll.
Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
Big, shy, angry.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Selfless and open, freeing.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
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