Think back ten years. Where were you? What did your days look like? And maybe most importantly, who were you spending them with?
For today’s poll, we want to know: Do you spend more or less time with friends today than you did a decade ago?
Life has a way of reshuffling priorities. Ten years ago, maybe your kids were younger, your career was different, or your health and hobbies pulled you in new directions. Maybe you were surrounded by coworkers and neighbors you saw daily. Or maybe now, with a little more freedom and time, you’ve rekindled old friendships—or made new ones on the road, at campgrounds, or online.
We know texts, group chats, and social media make it easy to “stay in touch,” but that’s not quite the same as sitting around a fire with friends, swapping stories under the stars. No phone can match that!
And yet, some of you might say you have more meaningful friendships now than ever before. Traveling, retiring, or simply slowing down often brings opportunities to meet like-minded people. RVers, for instance, often talk about finding instant community wherever they park—something many say they never felt in their hometowns.
So what about you? When you look back over the past ten years, has your circle grown tighter, smaller, or just changed shape? Do you spend more or less time with friends today than you used to? As always, thank you for your vote!
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As I age, I notice that I want to spend more time at home with my family and less time going out with friends. I am also more selective on which friends I want to spend time with.
Time wise, about the same. But, the group of friends changes as time marches on.
A lot seems to be travel time and distance coupled with what things are happening. It’s all with aging and how time seems to speed up but the old body slows down. It’s the “I should have, I could have, I would have but”.
SAD to see the results of this poll with people spending less time with friends.
THE FOURTH QUARTER OF THE GAME OF LIFE is when social interaction with others is needed the most!
Think of all the folks who retire and retreat to their home of many years. They become a prisoner in their own home! In many cases dying of loneliness.
The fourth quarter is a time when change needs to happen in everyone’s life. Move to places that encourage and provide the opportunity for activities to be with friends, make new friends and participate in daily activities.
The Fourth Quarter in the game of life is a very lonely place for most folks and that truly is a shame!
Well everyone’s different especially with how people think politically among other issues.
More time with friends – but that needs clarification. I have spent less time with long-term friends, simply because we have drifted geographically, or they have died. We are stationary for six winter months (now in our 9th winter) and have developed some very good friendships with people at our RV park. We stay in touch over the summers.
DW’s health issues have isolated us.
Less time. A lot of our friends are no longer with us.
This happens when you are pushing 80.
What are these “friends” of which you speak?
Being a senior citizen, since the pandemic many of my friends have passed away or taking care of their sickly spouse. Life is a gift.
I spend almost all of my time “with less friends” due to relocation or death. Once I became 75+, more and more have passed.
Since we moved to an area that has dog sport training classes available we spend time more days per week with our dog-minded friends than we used to spend with our snowmobile friends.
Covid and then costs put an end to the huge annual Christmas Party of extended retired work friends. A long life on our part leaves us with fewer friends to communicate with. Our extended family has also shrunk. The handful of us left have great appreciation for each other. And now I understand that the earth is spinning faster and time is going faster. Funny how I miss those tenths of a second. lol
Less time. The older we get, the fewer friends we have. Sadly.
Part of the problem is we went full time two years ago and see more new friends and fewer old ones, the other is that as time goes by more old friends are no longer among the living.
We are dog trial “nuts”- Jack Russell Terriers. It is the reason we RV and with the # of trials decreasing we see fewer of our fellow “nuts” as we are all aging out. The “Younger group” are not as dedicated to this passion and don’t help set-up, run and clean-up which is a 5 day comittment and requires an RV to stay onsite. Not as many new friends and us older ones are not as able physically.