It’s amazing how we all enrich each other’s lives in different ways. There is something to learn from everyone. A diverse group of friends helps us analyze life better by opening and broadening our mindsets. These friendships prove to be instrumental in evolving us into a more mature, understanding, wise, aware and accepting person. Further, our style of communication with each age group improves and we’re able to empathize better. Some feelings and bonds can’t be restricted by a small factor like age; and friendship is one of them. Let’s see how, we as young adults can enrich our lives and that of other people by being friends with people of different age groups.
With kids: Friends that young, will keep you active and will always make you see life in an innocent and playful way. We, as a friend can give them company, play different games and sports, educate them and impart good moral values. Being affectionate and appreciative towards them can help them develop high self-esteem and self-confidence. Won’t it be overwhelming when they remember you for all that you did for them in later years? Kids learn best when you set an example for them. They become what you inspire them to be.
With teenagers: They have immense potential and are full of dreams and aspirations, which would make you, look at life in a very rosy way. As young adults, who have just passed teenage, we’re capable of understanding teenagers quite effectively. A little push in the right direction can help in bringing out their true potential.
With young adults: Friends of the same age usually have similar struggles and aspirations and thus, can understand feelings better. Most young adults are busy making careers and can be highly inspiring and re-assuring/supportive of each other. Helping and motivating each other makes the friendship healthier, stronger and long lasting.
With adults: As adults, they balance personal and professional fronts very efficiently. They can help us gain knowledge and can educate us on how to use it well. On the other hand, we can share our knowledge about the latest developments with them. Just by being there for them when they need us and by being caring and understanding we can bridge the generation gap.
With elderly: Their wisdom and fore-sightedness are what we can experience and learn from when we interact with them. Just sitting and listening to what they have to say can teach us a lot about life. Sometimes, a little sentence of theirs’ can have a much deeper meaning and can express the gist of life. All we need to do is to be patient and listen. And just like their experiences can change the way we see life, our expressions of emotions can help them understand us better too. We can also be helpful by doing small, little favors for them, which they can’t due to age related limitations.
All of us in the society are inter-dependent, so why not do that with a touch of friendship?
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