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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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Making songs that are more famous than me.
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Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
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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.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
If I bothered to read instructions.
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.
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