I think most kind and compassionate people have young friends. I have many, but their friendship is different than those of my age group. Thank heavens we can't fast forward a younger person's life. Because NO ONE is exempt from the disasters, deaths of parents, sometimes deaths of children, cancer, heartaches, disappointments, fears and worries that come with each year of our lives. Nor can we forget the honors, the awards, the joys, the fulfillments, the dreams come true,the wisdom and information we have gained by just living, by passing the years. These cumulative events change you, they teach you, they strengthen you, they soften you and they AGE you and that is what we can't explain to someone who hasn't lived through all of those years. NOW, at this stage of our lives, most of us prefer to be with others who have been down the road of years that we too have traveled. It isn't meant to exclude, we just have earned the right to be comfortable and not make allowances for the others persons youth. We each have our choices. We each will do what we want to do, but for the most part we seniors are more alike than different.
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