The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily 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.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
People seeing their own greatness, rather than buying into their fears.
A personal assistant.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
To move like I did in my early 20s. I’ve had knee and hip surgery, and my toe joint fused since.
Not joining the circus.
Life’s too short to take offence.
I bumped into an old schoolteacher and her even more ancient and deaf sister, and she shouted to her, “Remember Esther? Now she writes books … ABOUT HERSELF.”
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
Safety or alarm, I can never decide which.
Did I behave in the right way?
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