Ages 11 to 15
Maeve, 11.00
What is the best age? I guess 10 because it’s your first double digit year
When do people become old? I would say in their late 60s
What makes you sad? There’s a lot of things but the harm that’s being done to the environment, the homeless because they deserve a better life. They shouldn’t be living on the street.
What makes you happy? There’s a lot of stuff, people helping the environment, those who help those that didn’t have privileges, animals, the world we live in, friends
What is the best place in the world? I have not idea. I’ve lived or been in a lot of great places
What do you worry about? Last year I saw a documentary about having to move to Mars. What happens next in some areas of life.
What do you love? Family, loving things, sports, animals, art, and in a way technology
What is next for you? I don’t know what’s gong to happen next for me. But literally I’m going to go to my friends house and have lunch with my Dad.
What is life about? Having fun but also being sad. And change and love and people
Damien, 11.08
What is the best age? Maybe 5 because you can ride in shopping carts and go on little kid play areas and when you draw you understand it but your parents don't. They just see scribbles.
When do people become old? Between 70 and 80
What makes you sad? Thinking about when our original dog died at 12, we loved her a lot
What makes you happy? Hanging out with friends, seeing friends, getting into conversations, sharing things, telling about things we know
What is the best place in the world? Disneyland, the lines are really long but they are always updating and it’s really worth the wait
What do you worry about? A couple of things, if my parents get hit by a car, losing my sister or my family in general
What do you love? My family, my dog and then doing something, playing around with friends and video games
What is next for you? When I get older, and get to middle school, get a girlfriend, get married, become a video game designer and make lego sets for others to enjoy
What is life about? Enjoying what you have and even that you're in life and you have the ability to enjoy it while you still can
Bassil, 11.42
What is the best age? Young age
When do people become old? 60
What makes you sad? Nothing
What makes you happy? Playing
What is the best place in the world? My home
What do you worry about? Nothing
What do you love? Just my house
What is next for you? Playing sports
What is life about? To progress and get better
Mark, 11.67
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? 30 and up
What makes you sad? Sad things
What makes you happy? Happy things
What is the best place in the world? Australia
What do you worry about? People’s health
What do you love? Other people not being happy
What is next for you? 12
What is life about? Making other people happy
Emmett, 11.75
What is the best age? 18
When do people become old? 50
What makes you sad? Going to bed without saying goodnight to one of my parents
What makes you happy? Playing video games and getting a new book
What is the best place in the world? An Imagine Dragons Concert
What do you worry about? World War 3
What do you love? Animals, nature, a lot of things outside and inside
What is next for you? Seventh grade
What is life about? I don’t know what the purpose of life is
![Jasper, 11.83What is the best age? 12When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? My Parents getting divorcedWhat makes you happy? Ice CreamWhat is the best place in the world? GhanaWhat do you worry about? DeathWhat do you love? My fam…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613000944784-D8DLU2186SXH7N34SWKW/Aging-58.jpg)
Jasper, 11.83
What is the best age? 12
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? My Parents getting divorced
What makes you happy? Ice Cream
What is the best place in the world? Ghana
What do you worry about? Death
What do you love? My family and my pets
What is next for you? My birthday
What is life about? Having fun
Meghan, 11.83
What is the best age? Probably the teens because you get more freedom to do what you want. You get to make more friends.
When do people become old? 30s
What makes you sad? Seeing people die or be sad
What makes you happy? Have a good time with my friends and my family
What is the best place in the world? Disneyland
What do you worry about? Getting cancer, sick or something like that
What do you love? Cats
What is next for you? Being 12
What is life about? Being on earth
![Vanesa, 12.00What is the best age? 13When do people become old? 85 or olderWhat makes you sad? Talking about my [biological] MomWhat makes you happy? Having familyWhat is the best place in the world? FloridaWhat do you worry about? Never seeing my […](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613000981045-RMJJ3HY4043K5FA7NBTR/Aging-60.jpg)
Vanesa, 12.00
What is the best age? 13
When do people become old? 85 or older
What makes you sad? Talking about my [biological] Mom
What makes you happy? Having family
What is the best place in the world? Florida
What do you worry about? Never seeing my [biological] Mom again
What do you love? Family
What is next for you? High School
What is life about? I think Love
![Ava, 12.42What is the best age? 10When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? Seeing people or anything dieWhat makes you happy? Seeing people win what they worked hard forWhat is the best place in the world? Wherever you feel safeWhat…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613000997709-ZLZOLHZTPA4VDLIQKBVG/Aging-61.jpg)
Ava, 12.42
What is the best age? 10
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? Seeing people or anything die
What makes you happy? Seeing people win what they worked hard for
What is the best place in the world? Wherever you feel safe
What do you worry about? Other people in general
What do you love? Dancing
What is next for you? Life
What is life about? A story that you get to help shape
Libby, 12.50
What is the best age? 16 or 17
When do people become old? 45
What makes you sad? Anyone dying
What makes you happy? Being around friends and family
What is the best place in the world? Greece
What do you worry about? Getting really hurt
What do you love? I guess my friends and family
What is next for you? I guess, I just want to see what happens
What is life about? I think it’s not always about happiness. It’s more about trying to live life to the fullest
Aadil, 13.33
What is the best age? 100
When do people become old? When they become 16
What makes you sad? My Mother being sad
What makes you happy? My Mother being happy
What is the best place in the world? America
What do you worry about? My family
What do you love? My brothers and sisters
What is next for you? 8th standard
What is life about? Everyone’s life is about themselves
Adia, 13.50
What is the best age? 18
When do people become old? 50
What makes you sad? Death
What makes you happy? My friends
What is the best place in the world? The Bahamas
What do you worry about? Grades
What do you love? My friends and family
What is next for you? High school
What is life about? I don’t know, just enjoying it I guess
![Sudarson, 13.67What is the best age? 15When do people become old? 65What makes you sad? My mother’s deathWhat makes you happy? My 8th public [exam] resultsWhat is the best place in the world? Ooti [India]What do you worry about? My examsWhat do you …](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613001032582-ASFZZZOBYGN2LNK6S866/Aging-63.jpg)
Sudarson, 13.67
What is the best age? 15
When do people become old? 65
What makes you sad? My mother’s death
What makes you happy? My 8th public [exam] results
What is the best place in the world? Ooti [India]
What do you worry about? My exams
What do you love? My Mom
What is next for you? Education
What is life about? It’s full of happiness and sadness. Even if we fail we can try again and shouldn't get sad. We should try and get to the top and respect elders.
![Edie, 13.75What is the best age? 16When do people become old? [not asked]What makes you sad? When others are upset or not cooperatingWhat makes you happy? When I have no distractions and am blasting musicWhat is the best place in the world? GhanaWha…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffcd3763a7fa1750fcf72fc/1613001043645-E1MM664W2HIUEM4J7MEH/Aging-64.jpg)
Edie, 13.75
What is the best age? 16
When do people become old? [not asked]
What makes you sad? When others are upset or not cooperating
What makes you happy? When I have no distractions and am blasting music
What is the best place in the world? Ghana
What do you worry about? The real world
What do you love? Music and my friends
What is next for you? College
What is life about? Doing what you love
Chris 13.83
What is the best age? Probably high school, 15/16 when you have the most freedom and least amount of responsibility
When do people become old? 65/70, you're still young until then
What makes you sad? Normal things that make people sad, family member dying, people in pain, maybe doing bad on a test
What makes you happy? Working around computers, going inside, coding. I also really like acting a lot
What is the best place in the world? Although I've never been there, I'd say Europe. So many cool countries and places to visit
What do you worry about? Normal Stuff, Choosing high school classes
What do you love? Family, computers, acting and other stuff but that's the main stuff
What is next for you? High school level transition, becoming more mature and older
What is life about? Having fun and getting the most out of it you can. Because you never know when it could be cut short.
Akash, 14.17
What is the best age? Childhood age
When do people become old? Old is not a thing, when we think we become old that's when we become old
What makes you sad? Many things, when I get low marks in subjects and exam papers. Sometimes we decide something and we don't get it
What makes you happy? Many things, when we get the desired things and wehn I get more marks and get 1st rank. And when I play with my Mom and Dad, many things but this paper isn't enough for me
What is the best place in the world? My village [Vanikyankulam, TN, IN], we don't have many things, it's small- and my house.
What do you worry about? Sometimes when I get failure but it isn't lost, I throw it away. Failure is not a thing that we become sad. It's a part of life and we shouldn't worry about it.
What do you love? My Mom and Dad
What is next for you? I want to become a Doctor and make a house with a swimming pool. I want to give money to poor people and help them get educated
What is life about? A thing that we love. A mixture of ups and downs. We throw [away the] downs and take [the] ups. It's not a bed of roses, in failure we learn a lot, in success we learn how to achieve success. [Life is] full of many things but in the future life becomes good or bad but we decide
Grace, 14.33
What is the best age? Probably 18
When do people become old? 60ish
What makes you sad? Stress and seeing people hurt and in pain
What makes you happy? Family, friends and dancing
What is the best place in the world? Anywhere that you’re happy
What do you worry about? Probably just life and making the wrong decisions
What do you love? My family, my friends, dancing
What is next for you? Probably high school, college
What is life about? Living, being happy, being sad, change, love
Sahubanali, 14.33
What is the best age? 11
When do people become old? Crossing 40
What makes you sad? When my Mother cries
What makes you happy? When I go on a tour with my friends
What is the best place in the world? My Home
What do you worry about? When I get low marks in my studies/exam
What do you love? My family, my friends
What is next for you? To become a great doctor
What is life about? To become the greatest one among everyone
LynnMarie, 15.17
What is the best age? 25
When do people become old? As soon as their favorite show gets put on me.tv
What makes you sad? Not being able to help my family
What makes you happy?Being around my family no matter what, no matter how much chaos is going on
What is the best place in the world? Home
What do you worry about? If I'm going to have good enough grades to get into college
What do you love? My family and being able to hang out with them
What is next for you? College
What is life about? Finding what you find amazing and being around and finding a family that loves you for you
Abdullah, 15.25
What is the best age? Youth
When do people become old? After 63
What makes you sad? When I’m alone
What makes you happy? When I’m with my family and friends
What is the best place in the world? I think the school, it makes me brilliant
What do you worry about? About my handwriting
What do you love? I love myself
What is next for you? I want to be a professor in maths
What is life about? It makes me a fulfilled person
Faith, 15.42
What is the best age? Probably 19ish, that's what my sister is at. You have more freedom because you're in college but you still have some responsibility
When do people become old? I don't think there's a specific age. It's when they clarify themselves as old (when they decide)
What makes you sad? Watching other people cry or be sad
What makes you happy? Making other people laugh
What is the best place in the world? I love my room, and Cannon Beach, OR
What do you worry about? My grades and what other people think. How they feel towards anything pretty much.
What do you love? My family and my friends and happy moments and happy memories and typically these are filled with friends and family .
What is next for you? For the next four years, kind of the same. striving to get good grades. Kinda set for high school, after that I don't know. Definitely college.
What is life about? I don't know how to answer that. Doing what you want to do and being what you want to be but not in a way that makes you forget about other people's feelings.
Mohamed, 15.50
What is the best age? 12 years
When do people become old? 63
What makes you sad? Leaving my parents
What makes you happy? Playing volleyball
What is the best place in the world? School
What do you worry about? My studies
What do you love? I love my parents
What is next for you? College courses
What is life about? Life is full of twists and turns, ups and downs, it is sometimes smooth and sometimes rough. We should take life happily
Nelika, 15.58
What is the best age? 5 and 6
When do people become old? 30
What makes you sad? A lot of things
What makes you happy? Animals, weather, family
What is the best place in the world? Seattle
What do you worry about? The future
What do you love? My dog
What is next for you? School
What is life about? Success and failure
Phaedra, 15.83
What is the best age?I think like 5 or 6, because everything is still of wonder, everything feels new in a good way and everything excites you to no end
When do people become old? When there's nothing in their life that makes them feel young at all
What makes you sad? Injustice and change and good people having to go through stuff they don't deserve
What makes you happy? Being around people that I love and doing the things that I love and remembering other good times. I'm very nostalgic.
What is the best place in the world? My family's old apartment in Hong Kong that I grew up in from 6 to 12.
What do you worry about? Oh that's a long list: My family, university, my mental health, my family's mental health, the President, the state of the environment, friends, change. Whether or not people like me.
What do you love? My family, my friends, reading, writing, music, tea, my dog, performing and my wacky earring collection
What is next for you? Finishing high school and going to college hopefully and learning how to see new things as good again and learning how to love myself.
What is life about? Life for me is enjoying and absorbing everything it means to be human. Taking full advantage of what I can see, feel, touch and experience. Taking full advantage of what you have.
Fawaaz, 15.92
What is the best age? Now, 15
When do people become old? About 50 years
What makes you sad? When I'm away from family
What makes you happy? Family and friends
What is the best place in the world? France
What do you worry about? Future
What do you love? Solitude
What is next for you? Engineering
What is life about? Being happy, living it to the fullest