By Joanne A.
While it’s not 100% certain, but younger friends will generally outlive your older ones. That’s reason number one to find them.
Friends-for-life has a nice ring of loyalty to it but as we age things change. Our old friends get chronically sick, or they don’t want to drive very far, disabilities and feeling vulnerable creeps into our relationships. And who do you know at 80 or more that wants to go out after dark? Our world gets smaller and smaller and less social.
By making younger friends our world can open up a whole new life.
I met many of my younger friends through an exercise group at a community centre. We started by going for a coffee after class and chatting in the change area. Pretty soon we were going out to the occasional lunch. Then one day one of the women asked if I wanted to join a book club. I did and expanded my group of friends. Each month we’d go to another’s home who would host the gathering. We visited each others homes
Just two weeks ago I was included in a three-day trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake with six other women. It was so much fun. We stopped for a high tea, went to the theatre and shopping and visited vineyards… Better still they pick me up and drive me home. At 86, I’m out socializing with people 20 years younger than myself. And we’re planning more adventures.
Point is, I get out of the house and I’m going places and doing things — Christmas parties, antique shows, movies, lunch on my back deck. And I can do all of it because I have young friends.
I’m having the time of my life.
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