Survey for those over 40

[outlier_lynn]

By the time I finished filling out the survey written by a teenager, I decided to write one for folks who vaguely remember being a teenager.

In the Last Year:

1. Make a major career move? For the better?
2. Buy or refinance your house?
3. Spend more money on prescription drugs or recreational drugs?
4. Had surgery? Major, Minor, Elective, Cosmetic?
5. Bought or leased a car? Two? Three?
6. Used frequent flyer miles to travel for pleasure?
7. Used your frequent flyer miles to let someone else fly for pleasure?
8. Retire? Return to work?
9. Start a business?
10. Divorce or end a long-term (greater than 10 years) relationship? (Whose wanted out?)
11. Consider ending a long-term relationship, but worked it out?
12. Celebrated a relationship anniversary of greater than 10 years?
13. Began or finished a mid-life crisis?
14. Create a will, an advance health directive, prepay or plan for your funeral or other death related preparations?
15. Help someone else make plans regarding the end of their life?
16. Spent more than $1000 on property (home, vehicle, etc.) maintenance in one month?
In more than one month?
17. Spent more than $1000 on personal (medical) maintenance in one month? In more than one month?
18. Spent more than $12,000 for insurance other than car insurance?
19. Bemoaned stiffness in your hip joints? Related to weather?
20. Had the thought "Stupidity is on the rise" or a thought with similar content?
21. Had the thought "I wouldn't be a teenager again for all the money in the world!" or a thought with similar content? For a different age group?
22. Had an experience that focused you on your own mortality?
23. Suffered a medical incident such as a heart attack or other potentially fatal condition?
24. Have a sibling or cousin close to your age die from non-trauma causes?
25. Have a grandparent, parent, child die?

In General:

1. Number of living grandparents? Out of how many (you decide what defines grandparent for you)?
2. Number of living parents? Out of how many?
3. Number of long-term friends who have died?
4. How many elementary, high school, and college teachers/professors can you name? Who, what grade and what subject?
5. How many long-term, romantic relationships have you had? How many marriages?
6. How many cars, trucks and motorcycles have you owned?
7. How many other vehicles (boats, jet skis, airplanes, etc.) have you owned? What vehicles.
8. How conscientious are you about matters of health? (smoking, diet, exercise, etc.)
9. How important are the matters of health from number 8 to you?
10. In what ways do you think you have declined in the last 10 years? And in what ways do you think you have improved in the last 10 years?