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.
Becoming invisible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
A receding hairline.
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.
I’m actually looking forward to getting older.
Losing the people that I love.
Funny Irish woman.
A wedding ring.
I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
If I needed less sleep.
I started my career not getting jobs, but then you learn that 95% of this job is not getting jobs, and you just have to make peace with it.
Peter Sarsgaard, Marina Abramović, Juliet Stevenson, George H. W. Bush, Milton Jones, Terry Pratchett
Search the directory for somebody in particular.