I started working part time in an accounting department when I was 19. I still work there and all my favorite coworkers are 40+
We go out together and eat lunch together, we celebrate birthdays together. I enjoy their company and I’m pretty sure they enjoy mine.
We lead very different lives but I think that’s an asset and not a complication. They offer insight to my struggles that no one my age could, they just have more life experience. They’ve been where I am. At the same time I can help them understand their kids, offer my own experiences and how I felt a couple years ago. I help them figure out good gifts for their younger relatives and they help me when I’m looking for gifts for my mom.
Don’t automatically shut yourself off from people who are older or younger than you. Proceed with caution and stay aware but in most cases I think befriending people outside of your immediate peer group can be a very good thing. You absolutely don’t have to and maybe I’m biased because I’ve always gotten along better with older people, but don’t rule it out on principle.
Regular life is not segregated by age and don’t I think online spaces should be. But! as i said proceed with caution and stay aware in online spaces.
Age gap discourse is surreal to me because social circles being limited by age is very much just something for when you're in school. Even in college, you can be in classes with people 20+ years older than you, especially in community colleges with people getting degrees "later" in life.
People in their late teens and early 20s are coworkers with people in their 40s and 50s. If you join community groups or clubs, you'll probably meet people decades older than you. Your neighbors probably won't be the same age you are. Neither will everyone at the bars or cafes you frequent. It's totally normal to meet someone much older or younger than you and hit it off as an adult because real life is not segregated by age.
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smash your head into a wall friday
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this is what makes us girlbloggers
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yo wtf girl
maybe id care about anya taylor joy if she got fat and brunette
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sunny afternoon, white wine spritz, american psycho 🖤🤘🏻
what more could a girl want?
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