The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
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Spirit of adventure and kindness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
That they were loved.
As little rubbish to sort through as possible.
So it seems to be my responsibility, particularly to my children, also to my wife and friends, is not to be Pollyanna and pretend everything's okay no one would take me seriously if I said that but it's to be as present in their lives now as I can be so that in years to come, they don't feel either guilty or bad at my having been left out of their lives, that they feel still a very strong not a memory of particular actions but a memory of a complete family rather than a broken one. That seems to be something I can do or try to do.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
We become fertiliser.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
Not being a professional footballer.
Impatience and vanity.
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