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Apparently, I’m now an older monkey

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Meh:
I'm trying to be open minded about making friends with co-workers. Since they are the people I spend the most time with. It almost feels odd to attempt to make friends nowadays at my age. Often I get the feeling that people have a closed circle.

One of my co-workers says she wants to go out while we are at work but then the reality of materializing that feels weird to me.

I keep telling myself just to give people a chance. That is all I can do. Be slightly open minded about random new events and people.

Hopalong:
Slightly open minded sounds just right to me...
enough to let lovely oxygen in and bad smells out.

:)

sunblue:
Hmmmm....I found this very interesting.  However, I'd dispute the finding that says as we age, we lose interest in trying new things.  I think, rather, as we age, we become much more selective in who we spend our time with and how we spend our time.  We don't want to waste our time on relationships that don't add value or contribute to our happiness or to activities that we don't enjoy.  As we age, I think we become much more cognizant of time and hopefully we understand ourselves better so that we don't invest our time wisely.

But I do think we still continue to want to explore and try new things....as long as they fit within our overall values and needs.

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