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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
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To be inquisitive.
Everything’s temporary, and how to make aioli.
More from Hamza Yassin
View profile →Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
Finding a partner.
Not being honest.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
My last dance with Jowita, my dance partner. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster; she’s taught me so much about myself and I grew as a result. I’m more confident, more understanding, more respectful, more attuned with myself and others, more mentally strong.
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