SS
You only get out what you put in. Karma – it all comes round.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2023 source ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 138 →When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
Erin O'Connor
English model
To be humble is to be sane.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.
We are not here for long – try not to take everything too seriously.
More from Shakin' Stevens
View profile →When I was recording a track called May, about my mum.
More green tea – I’m addicted.
I had a cardiac arrest in 2010. I also had a close call in the early days in Cardiff when I was in a band called the Denims. We were in a van driving along a narrow mountain road. Somebody wanted to go to the toilet, so we stopped, and afterwards the driver took a wrong turn and we went careering down the mountain. Everyone was screaming, it was like a nightmare. At the bottom was the railway line, but the van stopped just in time. We were very lucky.
It would be nice just to be remembered.
I never dwell on them.
A world without music.
More on time & hindsight
- What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? 577 answers
- What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? 78 answers
- What worries you about getting older? 61 answers
- What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28 answers
- If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 25 answers
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Adam Lambert, Belinda Carlisle, Kevin Rowland, John Simm, Jo Nesbø, Chaka Khan
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject