ages 36 to 40
Marcia, 36.08
What is the best age? 16, independent and freedom to do things, expectations for the future
When do people become old? When life makes you mature and you're forced to make decisions
What makes you sad? What I haven't been able to do yet. That I haven't done enough.
What makes you happy? Music- playing music (guitar), watching others perform, most touching way to express yourself
What is the best place in the world? Wherever you have people that are important to you
What do you worry about? The future, everyday (career, personal), what the future will look like, so many questions
What do you love? People who have ideals and are true to their ideals and not selling themselves out.
What is next for you? Really being authentically myself, not what other people think is life
What is life about? What you leave behind, what did you contribute while you were here
Morgan, 36.17
What is the best age? Probably in your 50s, less worry about little things
When do people become old? When you start to get sick and deteriorate mentally
What makes you sad? When people are unable to show empathy for others
What makes you happy? Watching people grow and learn new things and hard work
What is the best place in the world? I don't know, I don't think I've experienced it yet
What do you worry about? Financials, fear of not having income
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? Opening restaurant number two
What is life about? Continuing to learn as a society, as humanity and trying to find a little bit of happiness
Jessica, 36.17
What is the best age? 22
When do people become old? Never
What makes you sad? Incurable illness and death
What makes you happy? Socializing and meeting friends and family
What is the best place in the world? Any beach with warm blue water
What do you worry about? Everything
What do you love? Feeling productive
What is next for you? Baby
What is life about? Trying to impact as many lives as possible
Becky, 36.50
What is the best age? Every age that you are. I like my 30s over my 20s
When do people become old? On the negative side, when they are done learning, on the positive side when they acquire wisdom
What makes you sad? When I disappoint myself or others, when others are suffering
What makes you happy? When I connect with people in authentic ways, when I know I've lived up to the best me in that moment
What is the best place in the world? The place where I can be outside and be close to my family
What do you worry about? If I've made the right choices, all the ways I will inevitably screw up my kids
What do you love? My family, being in value, connecting with people, learning
What is next for you? Always tomorrow, finding healthy ways to be in balance with parenthood and being in partnership
What is life about? Making connections with others and work and me as an individual being and leaving the world better than you found it
![Robyn, 36.58What is the best age? 30When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? People Hurting othersWhat makes you happy? SunshineWhat is the best place in the world? ItalyWhat do you worry about? Mess and clutterWhat do you love? Hus…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613005775476-RN7K9YZZ6YQXMW8XCM6E/Aging-190.jpg)
Robyn, 36.58
What is the best age? 30
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? People Hurting others
What makes you happy? Sunshine
What is the best place in the world? Italy
What do you worry about? Mess and clutter
What do you love? Husband and Son
What is next for you? Adopting a child
What is life about? Seeking happiness
![Emily, 36.75What is the best age? 36.75When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? RegretWhat makes you happy? SynchronyWhat is the best place in the world? MemoryWhat do you worry about? FailureWhat do you love? SynchronyWhat is next …](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613005787732-2AEF7VOOA3MD0ZNMUHTU/Aging-191.jpg)
Emily, 36.75
What is the best age? 36.75
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? Regret
What makes you happy? Synchrony
What is the best place in the world? Memory
What do you worry about? Failure
What do you love? Synchrony
What is next for you? A 180
What is life about? Endlessness
![Jennifer, 36.83What is the best age? 40When do people become old?[not asked]What makes you sad? When my sister is sadWhat makes you happy? Making other people laughWhat is the best place in the world? Paris, FranceWhat do you worry about? That every…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613005801478-D8NEQIP2IGVLQFIG7FFE/Aging-192.jpg)
Jennifer, 36.83
What is the best age? 40
When do people become old?[not asked]
What makes you sad? When my sister is sad
What makes you happy? Making other people laugh
What is the best place in the world? Paris, France
What do you worry about? That every ache and pain is cancer
What do you love? My family and my friends...and beer
What is next for you? fun times
What is life about? Learning
Gaurav, 36.83
What is the best age? 30
When do people become old? 70
What makes you sad? I don't have a sense of sadness other than seeing my loved ones unhappy
What makes you happy? If folks that matter to me are truly happy
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? My parents
What do you love? Family
What is next for you? My daughter
What is life about? Leaving a positive impact
Luinda, 37.00
What is the best age? 39
When do people become old? When they take life too serious, when they stop laughing, when nothing is happy or funny anymore
What makes you sad? Disappointing people I love
What makes you happy? There's so many things that make me happy, seeing my family happy
What is the best place in the world? Egypt
What do you worry about? Not fulfilling my dreams, not giving myself a chance at succeeding at something, getting in my own life
What do you love? God
What is next for you? Showing my family that I can stay out of prison
What is life about? Not taking life for granted, living
Erin, 37.25
What is the best age? 30
When do people become old? I think it's more a mental state, age is relative
What makes you sad? The first thing that comes to mind is stories of children being abused
What makes you happy? Downtime
What is the best place in the world? Anywhere I'm on vacation with my family
What do you worry about? My kids, everything
What do you love? Reading, my family (in no particular order), the color teal, avocados, and the National Parks
What is next for you? Going back to work
What is life about? Finding happiness
Patrick, 37.25
What is the best age? The age of enlightenment
When do people become old? When they have a 3 month old
What makes you sad? When others fail and I feel like it's my fault
What makes you happy? When other people succeed and I'm confident I had a hand in it.
What is the best place in the world? Wherever my [wife] and [daughter] are
What do you worry about? Depends on when you're asking
What do you love? Feeling at home
What is next for you? Monday
What is life about? Elegance, support and productivity
![Brenda, 37.50What is the best age? Right nowWhen do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? Anything bad that happens to childrenWhat makes you happy? Family and FriendsWhat is the best place in the world? Maui (Hawaii)What do you worry ab…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613005857139-RLA0WF8RIHQK3NE6AHH4/Aging-197.jpg)
Brenda, 37.50
What is the best age? Right now
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? Anything bad that happens to children
What makes you happy? Family and Friends
What is the best place in the world? Maui (Hawaii)
What do you worry about? The safety of my family
What do you love? My family and friends
What is next for you? Successful business adventure
What is life about? Being happy and finding people to share that happiness with
Bliss, 37.67
What is the best age? 37, for the most part where I am right now is the best age
When do people become old? When they feel old
What makes you sad? Leaving my family
What makes you happy? A fun job
What is the best place in the world? Rome, Italy
What do you worry about? By son being safe
What do you love? Food, sleep and family
What is next for you? Another baby
What is life about? Doing the best you can with what you've been given to spend time with and provide for the ones you love, be it family or friends and making sure that along you're experiencing a lot of joy and providing as much joy to those around you as you can, and ideally a minimal amount of hurt.
Amber 38.00
What is the best age? I'm hoping I haven't hit it yet. It's a sad thought to think the best years are behind you.
When do people become old? When they stop learning new things
What makes you sad? The thought of not having people I care about around me. Both kids getting older and people dying.
What makes you happy? A lot of things make me happy. Being outside, beauty of nature, feeling accomplished, feeling like I'm in control of my destiny
What is the best place in the world? My home, I love to be home. It's where you surround yourself w/things you love
What do you worry about? I'm really not much of a worrier. I think it's wasted energy. When I do worry probably the same things most people worry about, money, safety, kids safety, losing your job.
What do you love? My family, my job, to travel and experience new things, to be around friends
What is next for you? Right now I have small kids, the next stage is them getting older and independent. Next is where I have more time for myself
What is life about? Learning and experiencing from people and situations around us. Learning and growing.
![Tyler, 38.25What is the best age? 28When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? Seeing my kids or wife unhappyWhat makes you happy?Holidays with familyWhat is the best place in the world? Aside from home, Cinque TerraWhat do you worry …](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613005893948-YYGOWDOA41Z2VV8WC68L/Aging-200.jpg)
Tyler, 38.25
What is the best age? 28
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? Seeing my kids or wife unhappy
What makes you happy?Holidays with family
What is the best place in the world? Aside from home, Cinque Terra
What do you worry about? Financial security and the future for my children
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? Short term: Enjoying time at home, Long term: One day running a fishing boat
What is life about? Doing what you enjoy, being happy, staying positive and making the best of everything
Jessica, 38.25
What is the best age? I don't think I can choose- good memories from every age in my life
When do people become old? Really a state of mind, people who are young have old souls, and I know people who are old that I have a hard time keeping up with
What makes you sad? Being away from my kids
What makes you happy? Spending time with my family
What is the best place in the world? Anywhere with my kids
What do you worry about? Everything
What do you love? My family and my kids
What is next for you? Going to get out and reestablish my life
What is life about? Making the most of every moment
Jill, 38.33
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? 50
What makes you sad? Hurt between friends
What makes you happy? Food and adventure
What is the best place in the world? The Trevi Fountain in Rome and staring at the ocean on the west coast (of the US)
What do you worry about? If society is losing touch with love and respect for one another (and spiders)
What do you love? A warm bed
What is next for you? Doing something brave, going back to school and my next reinvention of myself
What is life about? Series of connections that keep pushing us, make us happy, make us sad and helps us grow
Matt, 38.33
What is the best age? 12
When do people become old? When they get gray hair
What makes you sad? Disappointing others
What makes you happy? Family
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? My kids future (both my boys' futures)
What do you love? Making people happy and seeing other people succeed
What is next for you? The immediate thing that came to mind is Death. I don't know and I'm looking forward to finding out
What is life about?Living to your potential
Josh, 38.67
What is the best age? Mid 30s when you start to figure things out
When do people become old? It all depends on your lifestyle. I've seen some awfully old young people
What makes you sad? Loss of family
What makes you happy? Family
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Family
What do you love? Family
What is next for you? Working on myself, making myself better. It's a lifelong process
What is life about? Making others happy- to know that I can help others and make them make their lives better
Jorge, 38.67
What is the best age? 20s anywhere in your 20s after 21. When you're not a full adult so you can have certain freedoms because you're that age and you get to mess up a few times.
When do people become old?Whenever they feel like it
What makes you sad? Injustice, Racism, Inequality, Death
What makes you happy?Family, friends, traveling, music, creativity
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Giving up, not achieving my full potential in life
What do you love? Music, art, food, family and this little guy [Lucas the dog]
What is next for you? Settling down with all that entails
What is life about? Being happy, happiness and learning
Alex, 38.83
What is the best age? 28
When do people become old? Some people have an old soul at an early age, it's all about perspective
What makes you sad? Missing my grandma's birthday
What makes you happy? Seeing my fiance at the end of the day
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Many many things
What do you love? A drink with an old friend
What is next for you? I think about it all the time but I don't have an answer
What is life about? Joy
![Ryan, 39.08What is the best age? 35, who knows?When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? Unrealized potentialWhat makes you happy? My kid, moving in the right direction professionallyWhat is the best place in the world? Anyplace wher…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613006001430-UT87ESMRM2RV3HD08CTD/Aging-207.jpg)
Ryan, 39.08
What is the best age? 35, who knows?
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? Unrealized potential
What makes you happy? My kid, moving in the right direction professionally
What is the best place in the world? Anyplace where there's no immediate responsibility or stress
What do you worry about? Career and expectations
What do you love? My kid, my wife and when I'm able to create something
What is next for you? Hopefully good things, new career path
What is life about? Life just is
Jen, 39.08
What is the best age? 8
When do people become old? When they stop getting joy out of life
What makes you sad? When I see people that I love that are hurting and that I can't help
What makes you happy? Being with family and friends and when my kids go to bed
What is the best place in the world? Wherever my family is
What do you worry about? What everybody thinks all the time, and that's wrong
What do you love? My family of course, and friends and laughing and I love fall color and pumpkins
What is next for you? I'd like the kids to be more independent so I can have more free time
What is life about? Experiences
Helen 39.17
What is the best age? 28 because it was after that I started pulling muscles
When do people become old? Maybe when you stop learning and stop being interested in what other people are doing (my own personal view). From a society perspective, young people will always think older people are old.
What makes you sad? The big things, the death of a loved one makes me very sad. But also in a wider sense a lot of selfish actions. People not taking enough care of others and not being truthful.
What makes you happy? My girlfriend, my family, my friends and clean sheets.
What is the best place in the world? I'm going to say London because I have family and friends here
What do you worry about? Politics, death, illness, people I love, I worry about a lot of things
What do you love? My girlfriend, my family and my friends
What is next for you? I hope it's having my girlfriend moving to the UK. I hope it's seeing more of my family and friends. I hope it's increasing the variety of things I photograph. However ultimately I have no idea because I don't know what's coming up next
What is life about? Pursuing things I love but balancing that with my responsibilities as a human, member of a family, member of society. I don't see the pursuit of happiness as a be all and end all. It's a balance of doing things that are good for me and humanity
Wyatt, 39.25
What is the best age? Probably when I was little, maybe age 6 or 7
When do people become old? I'll say 70
What makes you sad? Not too much but missing the chance to be there for someone when they needed support
What makes you happy? Spending time with my family and friends
What is the best place in the world? I'll just say home
What do you worry about? Probably my health and being around for my family. And the world they [kids] will grow up in. Where we are headed as a society.
What do you love? My family, my dog Cabway
What is next for you? Vacations and more fun
What is life about? Having fun and helping others
Anthony 39.33
What is the best age? Mid 20s
When do people become old? Old is a frame of mind
What makes you sad? The way the world is with no mercy or compassion
What makes you happy? My religion
What is the best place in the world? Mecca
What do you worry about? I try not to worry about too much
What do you love? My faith, my religion
What is next for you? To keep focused and remain positive, hope to make it out of prison
What is life about? Doing what we were created for
Fabrice, 39.58
What is the best age? 30
When do people become old? When they stop enjoying life
What makes you sad? Misbehavior of the respect of life and the natural environment
What makes you happy? Great life, easy and good life
What is the best place in the world? A sunny place
What do you love? Women, life, music, nature
What is next for you? New adventure, new discovery
What is life about? Knowing yourself, learning about each other and enjoying what nature gives us
Simon, 39.58
What is the best age? I hope I've yet to experience it
When do people become old? When they want to be
What makes you sad? Time passing too quickly. You just wish you had more time in the moment of things
What makes you happy? Experiencing new things and doing things that I didn't think would make me happy but finding out that they did.
What is the best place in the world? Europe
What do you worry about? Not having enough time and being late
What do you love? Being alive and being surrounded by amazing people
What is next for you? Quite literally Mexico, in general more travel
What is life about? Experiencing new things. From the minute you're born until you die. The minute you stop is the minute you probably die
Aimeé, 39.92
What is the best age? Late 20s, I got married, bought a house, learned how to budget finances
When do people become old? On a daily basis, it's about how you feel
What makes you sad? Not being able to be with my kids every day
What makes you happy? Babies make me happy, and my family
What is the best place in the world? Our family camping spot, where there's no cell service. With fishing, hiking, water balloon fights and swimming
What do you worry about? My kids and their health and education. The way the world is turning out and their future
What do you love? My family, cooking, food
What is next for you? Finishing my college math and going home
What is life about? Family traditions and spending time with family. Being happy and healthy (even unhealthy because if you're with your family everything is set)
Sam, 39.92
What is the best age? I'd say 30, before you have kids and yet you're starting to find out who you are
When do people become old? When they decide that they're old. You're old when you can't do the things you love to do
What makes you sad? Seeing my kids struggle on things. Or politically "fake news" or people who find news to support whatever they believe
What makes you happy? Watching my kids discover something new. I'm happy when I'm laughing and surrounded by people that make me laugh.
What is the best place in the world? Freestone Inn (a lodge in the mountains near Mazama, WA)
What do you worry about? Loss of time
What do you love? Laughter, happiness, I love my wife and kids
What is next for you? An always changing journey, adventure
What is life about? Laughter and challenges and adventures and love
Adam, 40.25
What is the best age? I'll have to go with 40. I'll go with happiness over health
When do people become old? 86, my grandfather told me to do everything you want to do in life do before you're 86, because everything goes downhill after that
What makes you sad? Feeling alone
What makes you happy? Very generically, connections with people, family, friends, connections
What is the best place in the world? Home, wherever home is but I did really enjoy Hawaii
What do you worry about? Things that I shouldn't worry about
What do you love? Melanie [wife]
What is next for you? Not taking things so seriously
What is life about? Connection
Dom, 40.25
What is the best age? 23
When do people become old? When they stop having fun
What makes you sad? Injustice
What makes you happy? My son
What is the best place in the world? It’s home
What do you worry about? The future and the past and the present
What do you love? Learning
What is next for you? Tomorrow
What is life about? I don’t know
Jeremy, 40.50
What is the best age? 32
When do people become old?It extends further every year but 56
What makes you sad? If my sons are unhappy
What makes you happy? My sons being happy
What is the best place in the world? Somewhere with my family
What do you worry about? The world nowadays
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? New puzzle, new challenge, something that gives me growth
What is life about? Love, respect
Milord, 40.58
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? When you feel it in your body
What makes you sad? When my family is not doing well (for instance my son)
What makes you happy? Having a good life
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Lots of things, if there really is a heaven and how to save my soul and to help people change
What do you love? Nature and people
What is next for you? To prove I'm not the person they thought I was and that I can change things around
What is life about? Understanding others, love yourself and whats around, love and kindness
Jason, 40.92
What is the best age? Personally, now- 40 because I'm more aware
When do people become old? When they stop having the ability or drive to learn and become stagnant and regress instead of progress
What makes you sad? Wasted opportunity
What makes you happy? The love and support of my family
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Not enough time to right my wrongs
What do you love? My son, my wife, I cherish my freedom
What is next for you? To get out and pursue my dreams and investing 100% into me instead of everybody else
What is life about? Really not taking anything for granted. People you love, your friendships, really getting to know that life is bigger than just me.
![Derek, 40.92What is the best age? So far, 30When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? How mean people are to each otherWhat makes you happy? Music and my kids' sense of humorWhat is the best place in the world? HawaiiWhat do you worr…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613006458259-77CK4731HNVSMM5UBKAP/Aging-219.jpg)
Derek, 40.92
What is the best age? So far, 30
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? How mean people are to each other
What makes you happy? Music and my kids' sense of humor
What is the best place in the world? Hawaii
What do you worry about? The future we're leaving for the kids
What do you love? My family and music
What is next for you? Figuring out a new career
What is life about? Laughing and being nice