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.
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
I’m actually looking forward to getting older.
I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... And so it's what I dread more than anything is the isolation.
I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.
When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
A Pot Noodle on a cold day.
Three degrees: I paid my kids’ uni fees.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
Warren Buffett, Seann Walsh, Tom Fletcher, Ally McCoist, David Ajala, Giovanna Fletcher
Search the directory for somebody in particular.