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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Getting older doesn’t scare me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗
Not being flexible enough to dance freely.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Running out of time.
Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
My dad, because he died before I could say goodbye.
My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
Last week – A303 eastbound carriageway closures.
That further lessons await.
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
Ben Okri, Steve Jobs, Sarah Perry, Tony Christie, Neil Gaiman, Dervla Kirwan
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