Do you connect with people your age? I don't at all. People my age are married, with kids and... | Looking For Genuine Connections With Kind People

Yeah, I don't recognise myself in the mirror and I keep wondering how the hell I got here so suddenly. Where did the last twenty years go? What the hell was I doing?

I never got married or had a family either. Actually, I'm glad about that because the expense and responsibility of maintaining a household would have been a tough challenge. But it does leave you feeling pretty bereft and solitary when all your older relatives have gone.

I still love music and all the other things that excited me when I was in my teens and twenties. It seems that for many people, that all changes when they become 'grown up' (it was just a phase!), but for me it never did. But I don't know how I'm supposed to feel and act now that I'm 60.

Jenny1234 · 51-55, F

Yes I do. I connect well with almost any age.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

I hear you.
I work with youngsters so that helps keep my attitude to life in that space.

I've no interest in retiring 'young'; taking walking holidays nor taking the obligatory cruise around the Med. like others around my age.

PhoenixPhail · M

I connect with kind people, regardless of their age. I usually find more things in common and things to talk about with people my age, but not necessarily. There are some brilliant younger people. I wish I knew them when I was their age.

SW-User

I get on with all ages, as long as a person is fun and interesting, then that’s enough. It’s when they are fairly passive and don’t do much.

Sandcastler · 22-25, M

I've always found I get along much better with people older man me. All the people in my friends group are 5-15 years older than me, and the same tends to happen in my dating life as well.

SW-User

Yep i connect with people my age but I don’t always dress the same 🤷🏻‍♂️

sunriselover · M

I think I’m still 40. My body tells me I am not.

I worked with fifteen year olds all my life, they kept me young.

MorbidCynic · F

No. Even as a child, I have always felt “old”. I blame my mom for leaving me with my grandpa a lot (he was born in 1936). His personality shaped mine. Idk I never really felt like I belonged with my peer group. I don’t really associate being old with being lame. I think it’s mostly because I’m into first wave punk, so all the old people I have met as an adult are old school punks/goths. So we have a lot in common.