The question
What lesson has mattered most in your 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.
Offer kindness always.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗
That there is time. I doggedly prioritise and pursue tasks, and the day seems to open out and everything does get done. Chill.
Everything’s temporary, and how to make aioli.
That further lessons await.
We are too often advised to live life to the fullest. That’s too much pressure. The key is to find joy and poignancy in the quiet and mundane. Life is lived between the so-called big moments.
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
Having music for limbs.
Learning to get back up.
I overthink everything.
The three things I strive for are authenticity, presence and empathy. You’d have to ask my loved ones if I’m pulling them off.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
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