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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
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We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
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It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.
Cruelty to animals or children.
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