The question
What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
Absolutely nothing. It’s a privilege.
The fact that I smoke.
Younger people being amazed that I know what song they’re listening to.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
Terry Pratchett, Peter Sarsgaard, Marina Abramović, Juliet Stevenson, Milton Jones, George H. W. Bush
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