What do you think of age gap friendships? Why is it bad to have older friends?
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I've been told it was weird for me to be 23 and have middle aged friends.
I'm 26 now, one of my closest friends is 52. I met him through my parents' church. We get on great and talk about life, politics, history, countries, all sorts of things.
For basically 99% of human history adults of different ages socialised together. It was absolutely normal. It was also how younger people got skills, wisdom, trades, connections. It's great to get advice and perspective from older people.
But now modern society pathologises that, even going so far as calling it creepy. What do you think?
I'm 26 now, one of my closest friends is 52. I met him through my parents' church. We get on great and talk about life, politics, history, countries, all sorts of things.
For basically 99% of human history adults of different ages socialised together. It was absolutely normal. It was also how younger people got skills, wisdom, trades, connections. It's great to get advice and perspective from older people.
But now modern society pathologises that, even going so far as calling it creepy. What do you think?
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Reply 1
safari24
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In guessing the response that was deleted wasn't very nice.
Reply 2
When I was student age there was a group of us going on a night out which included a friend of a friend who was around 40. Most of us didn't really want him there because he was old.
I've found once you get past a certain age it doesn't really matter. I have several friends who are considerably older than me and friends who are a decade younger than me.
That said now I'm over 40 myself I do still question why that 40 year old from all those years ago wanted to go clubbing with a bunch of youngsters. I certainly wouldn't want to do that.
I've found once you get past a certain age it doesn't really matter. I have several friends who are considerably older than me and friends who are a decade younger than me.
That said now I'm over 40 myself I do still question why that 40 year old from all those years ago wanted to go clubbing with a bunch of youngsters. I certainly wouldn't want to do that.
Reply 3
It can just vary I suppose, I always got on better with people a bit older, at 13/14 i was mostly friends with 18+ people and obv through them I'm meeting even older people with shared interests. I remember my mum being a bit odd about it when i was younger, but she came round to the fact the older friends I had were a lot better adjusted and positive that pretty much any of my peers at school *shrug*
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