The question
What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Younger people being amazed that I know what song they’re listening to.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2025 source ↗
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
The inability to do things for myself.
Absolutely nothing. It’s a privilege.
Not being able to run.
Should talk less.
When I was 16, my dad got drunk at the Oval cricket ground and harangued Sir Garry Sobers, possibly the greatest cricketer of all time, because he didn’t agree with who he’d given as man of the match.
Through a series of mistakes in write-ups, I’d like to be remembered for something like being Britain’s finest downhill skier or inventing pickled onions.
I’m so tempted to answer serial killer.
Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
When I had cancer. I was having a shave and thought: “Are you meant to have a big hard lump on one side of your neck?”
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