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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗
I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
My children, because I spent the majority of their youth away from them as I’m the breadwinner and I had to pay the bills.
My father, with whom I had a complex relationship: often, when I was young, his desire to protect me clashed with the stubbornness of my choices.
To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
Less work, more living.
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
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