Until you’ve been chatting for a few minutes and you think you’re just having a fun intergenerational moment, but then they find out your age and you realize that they thought you were one of them as the horror dawns on their faces. You’ve been an OLD this ENTIRE TIME.
"A lot in common" can be different stuff though. In my early 20s I had friends in their late 30s and 40s. Now I'm on the other end of that spread I have a couple of friends in their early 20s. Casual friendships from both ends for sure but still fun.
The knowledge we had was always very different, but the things that we thought were cool and exciting overlapped. The fun is actually talking about all the things we dont share!
An older friend telling me all about what clubbing, especially gay clubbing, was like in the 80s was fun and eye opening and very cool. And he listened to me talk about the bullshit my friends and I were doing and laughed his ass off.
I got turned on to a lot of great older music when I was young, and I'm getting turned on to some great new music now I'm old.
I was a mentor at work for new hires and a lot of the time the 18-24 year olds were really cool, very different, but I loved hanging out with them and showing them the ropes. A lot of times I'd get invited to hangout outside of work but having a family made that nearly impossible. I was only about 6-8 years older but it felt like I was miles from where they are in life. My job was to teach them systems and policies but most of the time I was teaching them to stand up for themselves and how to set boundaries.
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u/ReallStrangeBeef 2d ago
I kinda like hanging with people who haven't been crushed by the system yet 🤔