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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
So far, getting older has made almost everything better.
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
Fewer night shifts.
Compulsory headphones for phone users in public.
Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
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