The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.
Well, I—I've experienced that the stroke was grace. It was grace, for me, to play, to get inside, grace. I was dependent. These are things that I—those, those were graceful things. You know, pushed. And just go inside, to be—you're a quote "author" and it's a cultural thing, that role, to get into your head. But it's a head game. It's a head game. And I wanted to get down to my spiritual identity. And the stroke placed me at the spiritual identity.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
That materialistic things will not make you happy.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
Having a great fear.
As a kind person who cared for others.
My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
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