Friends.
I noticed one thing very early in my life that I was an old soul. I liked everything old, the songs, the movies, and preferred to be a silent observer rather than an active participator. I still am the same way. I don’t know if me being an old soul has anything to do with or not. I’ve never been very successful at making friends of my own exact age and always found friends in people either older or younger to me.
Has that happened with you too?
Then you’ll definitely relate to the experience of having friends of different ages.
1. They enhance the sense of wonder in your life.
The younger ones are full of wonder and questions and the older ones are always ready with the answers and you enjoy both of them equally. Learning from their chirpy youngness and their sweet gentleness respectively.
2. They impart their childish confidence or if older, their experienced surety onto you.
Kids are confident about what they’re doing and the older ones teach you how to be confident about something you’re completely sure of doing.
3. They somehow get you back on track when you feel lost.
They encourage you in their own respective ways and you have no hesitation with asking them for help because you’re going to get unexpected answers.
4. You feel culturally connected to all eras of life with them.
You live vicariously through them, your past and your future. You see the kid you were in the ones who are younger and hope to be like the ones who are older to you.
5. They help you lose some preconceived stereotypes that come with age.
There are stereotypes that come with age that the young people are troublesome and the oldies are boring. When you interact with them, you realise that how these stereotypes fall away into oblivion.
6. They make you a wiser person in your personal life.
The younger ones teach you how to think and the older ones teach how to be careful about it.
7. You realise you don’t have the fear of missing out.
You lose the sense of missing out as your life is enriched with all kinds of people and they’re all helping you out to be a better person.
8. You realise you’ve become more and more open-minded about things.
The innocence and the experience of the young and the elders teach you the difference between the right and the wrong and keeps your imagination strong.
9. They inspire you to be someone better than you are.
They keep inspiring you to be a better person constantly by being some sort of tiny reminders and examples of their experience in life which make you want to be better for them.
10. You never feel left out.
You never feel like being left out. You have the young friends to have fun with, those few your own age to be confused with and the older ones to ask your questions to. They’re all there to support you as you are for them. 🙂
