ages 41 to 45
Michael, 41.17
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old?When they feel old
What makes you sad? Seeing relatives, get older
What makes you happy? Being with my family
What is the best place in the world? Vacations with the family, being able to spend time together without the hustle and bustle
What do you worry about? The kids, being a good parent/role model, setting them up for success
What do you love? Spending time with the family, coaching the kids, a nice steak
What is next for you? I don't know
What is life about?Family, friends, just enjoying what makes you happy
![Sarah, 41.50What is the best age? 39When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? When my kids are emotionally hurt and I can't help themWhat makes you happy? ReadingWhat is the best place in the world? Kauai (Hawaii)What do you worry ab…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613006561468-ERZ27FEZS92FRE6WAJKD/Aging-222.jpg)
Sarah, 41.50
What is the best age? 39
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? When my kids are emotionally hurt and I can't help them
What makes you happy? Reading
What is the best place in the world? Kauai (Hawaii)
What do you worry about? Money and global warming
What do you love? My kids
What is next for you? Figuring out what is next for me
What is life about? Figuring out who you are and how to express your authentic self
Nate, 41.50
What is the best age? Right now
When do people become old? When they give up trying
What makes you sad? Wasted potential and unrealized opportunities
What makes you happy? Giving all that I can and connecting deeply with other people
What is the best place in the world? Inside my mind
What do you worry about? Everything
What do you love? The latent things beneath the obvious
What is next for you? Incremental steps towards awakening
What is life about? Appreciating the moment
Stacie, 41.50
What is the best age? 4
When do people become old? When they have kids
What makes you sad? Disney movies
What makes you happy? Old dogs
What is the best place in the world? The dinner table
What do you worry about? Everything, literally everything. I worry more now than I did last year
What do you love? Probably more than I should
What is next for you? More of the same until retirement. I'm not looking for a change anymore.
What is life about? Leaving things a little better than when you got here
Ben, 41.67
What is the best age? Mid 30s
When do people become old? Mid 40s
What makes you sad? Not getting my way
What makes you happy? Right now in my life booking a gig
What is the best place in the world? After booking a gig the best place is on set
What do you worry about? My Family
What do you love? My Family
What is next for you? Does anyone really know what's next?
What is life about? Having as many experiences as possible
Angela, 41.83
What is the best age? My best age was mid 20s, about 25
When do people become old? Experiences in our life make us old at a certain age
What makes you sad? Not being with my kids
What makes you happy? Knowing that I will be home with my kids soon
What is the best place in the world? My Grandma's house
What do you worry about? Disappointing my kids again
What do you love? Life
What is next for you? To start a new chapter in my life
What is life about? Experiences and learning
Dana, 42.17
What is the best age? 16. I felt happiest at 16. You don't have enough responsibilities but just enough rights
When do people become old? When they stop enjoying life, when they stop learning and trying new things
What makes you sad? People leaving me and seeing old people and one [of older people] dying and I'm feeling sad for the other 1/2
What makes you happy? Sun, love
What is the best place in the world? There's so many, wherever you are when you're happiest
What do you worry about? Money and my daughter's health
What do you love? My daughter, there's lots of things I love, numbers, myself, chocolate
What is next for you? Lots of different things, wherever life throws at me really.
What is life about? Living
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Renuga, 42.42
What is the best age? 31
When do people become old? 56
What makes you sad? Nothing
What makes you happy? I'm always happy, everybody
What is the best place in the world? Tamil Nadu [India]
What do you worry about? My students
What do you love? My school
What is next for you? [My] Students' achievement
What is life about? Improving women's and girls educations
Dave, 42.50
What is the best age? The age I am now
When do people become old? When they stop believing that something better is possible
What makes you sad? When people are abusive to each other
What makes you happy? Family
What is the best place in the world? In the presence of God
What do you worry about? Security
What do you love? My children
What is next for you? Moving out of the country
What is life about? Doing the best you can with what you're given
Melissa, 42.50
What is the best age? 65
What makes you sad? Thinking about my parents' mortality
What makes you happy? My daughter
What is the best place in the world? Our house
What do you worry about? Money
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? Doing my best to take care of this business I got into
What is life about? Being the best that you can in the amount of time that you have
Terrance, 42.75
What is the best age? 30
When do people become old? 90-92
What makes you sad? Lots of moments in my past, bad decisions
What makes you happy? The future, the opportunity of a second chance
What is the best place in the world? Somewhere with my family
What do you worry about? That people over time won't see the changes I've made and will still judge me based on what I did 20 years ago
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? Business
What is life about? A series of challenges that each of us face individually. We are judged by how we come through them. And as you get older you get better
Karen, 43.08
What is the best age? My 40s
When do people become old? Depends on the person
What makes you sad? When my kids get hurt
What makes you happy? Watching my kids succeed
What is the best place in the world? In my boyfriend's arms
What do you worry about? A lot, the biggest thing is finances
What do you love? My boyfriend, my kids, my family, modeling
What is next for you? I don't know, I take it one day at a time
What is life about? Being happy
George, 43.17
What is the best age? Life is a never ending journey of finding yourself, so i don't know if I've hit it yet. My best age was probably 25,26,27
When do people become old? When they give up on trying to innovate, and trying or when they stop evolving with new ideas (or being able to accept new ideas)
What makes you sad? Whatever is a trying time, even if it doesn't concern me, like someone close to me going through a grieving process
What makes you happy? Being able to figure something out, good music, pursuit of happiness, something new that makes the light bulb go off
What is the best place in the world? Physically could be wherever is best at the time, but spiritually it's good health
What do you worry about? Camaraderie of mankind- just to be able to get along. Racism, sexism, this election- can we get along together
What do you love? Positive energy
What is next for you? I want to try different things that I've never tried (writing about the brutal honesty of what goes on in the world from the perspective of growing up in the status quo. For people to be aware of way of growing up at a young age
What is life about? Never ending journey of discovering yourself and overcoming. Like the saying- “Success is not measured by what you have but what you overcame”
Usha, 43.58
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? 45
What makes you sad? Nothing
What makes you happy? My child being born, working in this school
What is the best place in the world? I haven't seen the world but I like home and the school where I work
What do you worry about? My child's studies
What do you love? My child
What is next for you? My work continuing at the school, developing the school
What is life about? Doing well, being united and together
Michael, 44.50
What is the best age? The age that you’re currently at
When do people become old? When they feel that they’re old, it’s really a mindset.
What makes you sad? Specifically if there’s conflict with people you love. When my kids are sad, when Jen [partner] is sad. When other people are affected other than the obvious stuff.
What makes you happy? Being with the people I love, being in the present, fortunate for where I am. Living each moment. My work.
What is the best place in the world? Wherever you are with the people you love. Doesn’t really matter where
What do you worry about? My Kids. Whether they’ll be happy, whether they’ll meet someone who makes them happy
What do you love? Being with the people I love, being happy. Spending time enjoying life. I love when everyone around me is happy. I feed off of other people’s emotions.
What is next for you? Literally- moving from a rental to a house. Developing my life with the people I love.
What is life about? Making connections with people you love and making the world a better place than when you came. Helping other people improve their lives.
Kim, 44.67
What is the best age? 30s, they are the new 20s
When do people become old? When their mind makes them old
What makes you sad? Politics
What makes you happy? My kids
What is the best place in the world? Wherever my family is
What do you worry about? The state of the world, my kids growing up in this world
What do you love? My family
What is next for you? Figuring out how to raise a teenager
What is life about? Connecting with other people
Mike, 44.83
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? When they realize they sound like their parents
What makes you sad? Violence
What makes you happy? Laughter
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? If my kids will be safe, their financial future, my parents health
What do you love? Laughter, chips and salsa, the ocean, the mountains, good writing
What is next for you? I don't know
What is life about? It's about enjoying the beautiful moments
Michele, 44.83
What is the best age? 44 It's been pretty good
When do people become old? That's a state of mind, I feel like I know old 25 year olds and young 80 year olds
What makes you sad? The thought of my mother dying
What makes you happy? My husband and son
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? Gun violence, especially as it pertains to children
What do you love? Life
What is next for you? A cabin in the woods
What is life about? Living, and to quote Charles Bukowski "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us”
Eagalaivan, 45.42
What is the best age? 100 we should reach that
When do people become old? 100 isn't it, as long as our mind is good
What makes you sad? Sometimes when people aren't giving chances to Physically challenged people
What makes you happy? Helping physically disabled [people] receive vocational training, that's the main thing
What is the best place in the world? My hometown [Salem, India]
What do you worry about? Younger generation
What do you love? My family because they are my support, my backbone
What is next for you? My ambition. Giving physically challenged people vocational training. I've made steps but want to achieve more.
What is life about? Happiness and strength
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Jafira, 45.42
What is the best age? 40
When do people become old? Above 60
What makes you sad? Hurtful speech
What makes you happy? Owning our own house
What is the best place in the world? Hill areas [in South India]
What do you worry about? My son and daughter
What do you love? God
What is next for you? Settling in well
What is life about? Life is about managing difficulties
Phelyx, 45.75
What is the best age? I enjoyed 30
When do people become old? When they give up
What makes you sad? When I can't help someone ( I don't have the ability)
What makes you happy? Making others happy
What is the best place in the world? I haven't seen them all yet
What do you worry about? My children
What do you love? Creating
What is next for you? Publishing my book
What is life about? The human experience in general, interaction with others
Daniel, 45.83
What is the best age? 35
When do people become old? I think it's always 10 years ahead of the age you're at
What makes you sad? I think death and the prospect of death
What makes you happy? My friends and family and a sunny day
What is the best place in the world? I think here and now
What do you worry about? A lot of things, my kids, my family, I will say world problems as well
What do you love? I really love my kids and my partner
What is next for you? Putting the kids to bed
What is life about? It's about making your own meaning