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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Having regrets and not knowing what to do about them.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
Certainly not. As a young child, I remember just dreaming about the Nobel Prize, but that was just a dream. It’s not something I would have ever thought was possible for me.
That my nose and chin will touch.
Not being flexible enough to dance freely.
Steady, reaching, bewildered.
To be stuck in the past.
A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.
I’ve not always been great friend material. I’ve tried to get better at that, so to be remembered as reliable by a few would be great.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
A running accident when I was 14 or 15. I fainted but I was a bit of a jester and they thought I was taking the piss, so I was left for a bit. I woke up in hospital.
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