What’s the best thing about growing old?
Resignation: the knowledge that parental admonition, pubertal apprehension, teenage aspiration, adult ambition and middle-aged frustration are all things long gone.
Bill Lake, Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK
• Grandchildren.
Nicholas Houghton, Folkestone, UK
• You stop blushing.
Amy Gibson, London, UK
• Compared to what? Being there is the only answer.
Tom Long, Los Angeles, California, US
• Not wearing high heels.
Gillian Shenfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Limits! Knowing that life’s plate’s offering are shrinking.
Gene Novogrodsky, Brownsville, Texas, US
• No more tricky customers haggling in my antique shop.
Jenefer Warwick James, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Peace, quiet, harmony: and all the circles meet.
Edward Black, Church Point, NSW, Australia
• Hindsight.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• That you are closing in on your destiny.
Greg McCarry,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Having a second childhood. So there!
Jennifer Rathbone, Toronto, Canada
• The number of free passes one often gets.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• Knowing what needs to be done but no longer having the need to do it.
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
• Provided life is OK, still being here.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria Australia
They say it’s a two-way thing
Facebook aside, how many friends do you have?
Facebook aside, I have a Guardian Weekly.
Sunil Bajaria, Bromley, UK
• It’s not possible to know until you need them!
Gai Wright, Darwin, NT, Australia
Only Zeus can solve this one
What if God was one of us?
If he is then we have to wonder if he is answerable to another god; in which case, he would definitely be one of us – or at least, most of us. Other than that we have a diaspora of global demi-gods amongst us, who seem answerable only to themselves.
Marion Llewellyn, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• He’d give no homework and send the kids out to play.
Bernadette Duncan, Hausen, Germany
• I knew you would ask that!
Joe Harvey, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Any Answers?
At what point does reality live up to the fantasy?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
Of all the languages humans speak, which is the best to avoid being forced to signify gender?
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
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