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 ↗
That I am not wise.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
Of the sweets of adversity, and let me say that these are not numerous, I have found the sweetest, the most precious of all, is the lesson I learnt on the value of kindness.
You are good enough.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
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.
As a kind person who cared for others.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
Having a great fear.
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