Insecurity around money. I have this profound insecurity about not having enough to provide for my family.
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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.
That I don’t give myself enough credit.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
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Whining.
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Procrastination.
I have a child-like fear of being late. I’m a grown man, and I’m scared I’m going to the principal’s office.
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I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
I cry every day. Sometimes out of frustration. I do grieve my mum, so I allow the grief to sit until it’s not there any more.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
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