Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What does love feel like?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Cruelty to animals or children.
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People who barge into a lift instead of standing aside for anyone exiting should be dipped in kerosene and fired into the sun.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
John Malkovich
American actor
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
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View profile →It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
Selfless and open, freeing.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
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