Is it normal to have friends that are more than twice your age??

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Basically I always seem to be attracted (not sexually) to people 15 years + to have as my friends. I do have lots of friends my age (I'm 18) that I love to death, I honestly couldn't have asked for greater people in my life. Yet I still find myself hanging around people twice my age who are old enough to be my parent's friends, but they aren't. I feel so out of place sometimes that I begin to wonder if I was born into the wrong time or decade. Then I begin to question whether the older people I find and call my "friends" feel the same way I do, trapped in the wrong decade (even though they've already been my age.) Then thoughts like "maybe they're using me for something" cross my mind, but I can't understand what a 38 year old would want from an 18 year old. Not that it's a bad thing, but I really just can't seem to figure out what these people see in me that's so different from any other 18 year old. I don't understand, is anyone else in a similar situation??

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    My friends are all kinds of ages. Two men that I would definitely consider friends are in their sixties. They both give me life advice (usually telling me I'm going out with the wrong girl) and I give them advice on how to work their mobile phones. It's how it should work. The young learn from the old and the old learn from the young. That we don't do this more is one of the biggest failings of Westernised countries.

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  • wigsplitz
    13 years ago

    Normal, I am like that too. I always felt more mature and interested in things that people my own age weren't into. I also didn't like the games that younger people played, it seemed like thier lives revolved around cruelty, clothes and gossip. Older people had figured themselves out, chilled out and had experience that made them better quality friends. I appreciated them for their maturity and knowledge.

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  • Legion
    13 years ago

    I have many friends, both near my age, and older. I feel really comfortable talking to people that are my dads age, as I seem to relate to them more than people my own age.

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