The question
What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A newer fixed question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing the people that I love.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
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.
Not being able to perform adequately.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
I worry about doing everything right with my kids.
Dancing on stage with an open fly.
A bushel of self-confidence.
The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
Leona Lewis, Maurice Sendak, Helen Skelton, Ally McCoist, Imogen Poots, Lucy Lawless
Search the directory for somebody in particular.