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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Losing the ability to get about.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2024 source ↗
A receding hairline.
Getting even older.
Not being flexible enough to dance freely.
It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Not having the people I love around me.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Happy, loyal and late.
Lack of acceptance of my bad timekeeping
In the 18-yard box.
Not going to the World Cup in 1986 and not going to the World Cup in 1998.
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