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.
Absolutely nothing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.
I would have taken more drugs.
I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
OCD medication.
A strong work ethic and enough wealth not to need it.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
It’s really, really nice.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
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