The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
My complete ineptitude at sport.
Political leadership generally.
Not being able to bring my career back into place.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
Manipulative greed and hate.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
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