Losing my eyesight – I live for the view, and the sunset and the sunrise.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2026
Time & hindsight
Time & hindsight
Seven questions about advice, getting older, what you would put on a billboard, and the happiest moments you remember.
7 questions, 865 answers on the record, from 752 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.
Worth reading
What worries you about getting older?
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2024
Every question in this questionnaire
- If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why? 24
- What made you stop something you were known for, and how did you know it was time? 14
- What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself? 23
- What worries you about getting older? 61
- What lesson has mattered most in your life? 138
- What counsel has proved most valuable to you? 28
- What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? 577
Who has answered
Members with enough answers in this questionnaire to be worth arriving at — listed A–Z, not ranked by count.
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AL
3 answers b. 1995
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AM
2 answers b. 1962
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AR
3 answers b. 1963
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Andrew YoungCivil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
2 answers United States b. 1932
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AP
2 answers b. 1943
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Aung San Suu KyiLeader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021
2 answers Myanmar b. 1945
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BG
2 answers b. 1975
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BO
3 answers b. 1959
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Bill Clinton42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
3 answers United States b. 1946
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BB
2 answers b. 1957
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BC
2 answers b. 1981
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CL
2 answers b. 1961
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