The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
Forty-eight hours after giving birth, I sent a picture that someone had sent me of their baby to a WhatsApp group, thinking it was my son (they kind of looked similar). Mortifying.
Living a fairytale.
A healthy planet.
I almost cried last night because of the lack of sleep.
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