Being on a plane that is about to crash.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗
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Not fulfilling my potential.
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