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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Pain and loneliness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
Younger people being amazed that I know what song they’re listening to.
Losing the people that I love.
Not being able to run.
I was looking at ageing in action, in black-and-white MRI pixels, death and dissolution foretold, and already partly achieved. My 70-year-old brain was shrunken and withered, a worn and sad version of what it once must have been. There were also ominous white spots in the white matter, signs of ischaemic damage, small-vessel disease, known in the trade as white matter hyperintensities – there are various names for them. They looked like some evil pox. Not to put too fine a point on it, my brain is starting to rot. I am starting to rot. It is the writing on the wall, a deadline.
Procrastination.
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
I’ve never got through Ulysses.
My younger self, because I was very, very tough on myself.
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