The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?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.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
I am pretty proud of having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
An air traffic controller.
“Oh, she giggled, didn’t she?”
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
If I bothered to read instructions.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
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