The challenges those growing older face

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- Birjees Hussain

The saying is that the eligible pool of life partners gets smaller and smaller as you get older.

This is not only absolutely true but it also applies to finding friends your own age. As you get older you discover that the number of younger people gets higher and the number of older people, more your own age, gets lower and lower.

When you're single you begin to discover that a higher chance of feeling lonely comes on as you get older. There are people around you but you soon realise that they are far too young to understand you, or you them.

Those your own age have either passed away or moved on with their lives with their spouses, grandchildren or their careers. Or, sadly, you live on the other side of the world from them. As you look at the crowd of faces around you, maybe out of despair, it begins to dawn on you that most of the people are beginning their lives with their children or are hustling in meetings for their careers.