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The inability to do things for myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
Instead of saying, “I tripped up”, you have to use the words, “I had a fall.”
I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
My relationship with drugs.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
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