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.
You’re more capable than you think.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
Life’s too short to take offence.
Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.
That further lessons await.
Don’t make jokes at the expense of Little Mix. They have an ardent fanbase.
Nice, direct, loyal.
Pure happiness.
My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
My very long to-do list.
I think our kids take our stuff!
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