It is not merely a matter of “sloughing off” friends as you get older. They keep dying on you....
Guess I have to start finding younger friends.
It is not merely a matter of “sloughing off” friends as you get older. They keep dying on you/us....!
My wife and I are well into our 80’s, and between old age, isolation from the pandemic and Mother Nature, we have lost a lot of friends and relatives in this past ten years+ so far.
While in our our 30/40’s we made friends with a few good people in their 40/50’s.
Many if not most died shortly after 9/11. Our mother’s and aunts didn’t make it past that decade. Weekly phone calls and texting with some was very important to them and us. Both of our Dads and our uncles just seem to fade away like retirees after a long hard and good career. They never made it to 9/11.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s has taken its toll with friends, relatives and others we have known and cared about.
An interesting and positive trend has been the adoption of us as parents by younger men in their 40;s/early 50’s.
My wife has a strong peer group in basically her age. I jokingly call them The New Steel Magnolias.
We have no daughters, and a couple of younger female relatives without mothers have adopted my wife as “mom”. In fact, she is with one attending a mother/daughter English Tea at this time. This is their second such event together.
God’s best gifts are good families and friends, and the common sense and good health to enjoy them.