The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being giving to the detriment of myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
Control freakery in the kitchen.
Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.
Being overly critical.
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
Being alone and other people getting busier with families and life.
Making my mum proud.
Realising what adulthood is after waiting so long to get here.
An office in the garden.
Handing out the tequilas.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
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