What stage of life are all of your friends in?

C, E and the last half of B.

I have 12-year-old friends, 18-year-old friends, 21-year-old friends, 30-year-old friends, middle-aged friends, friends my age and a very good friend who is 87. If anyone is restricting him or herself to a single age group for friendship, he or she is missing a great deal.

The question was modded, so my original answer makes no sense.

I’ve got a few friends in each different stage.

I have two sets of friends. One set is just beginning to have children and the other half is finishing up their higher degrees.

The other set is just beginning to deal with the affects of aging.

My friends are all grandparents, retiring or getting close to it.

Most of my friends are either in college, graduates with bachelors, or continuing their education getting their Masters or Ph.D’s. I have a couple who are single mothers, rare few are married…not with children though.
There is a variety of ages, but I’m mainly thinking of the people I have known the longest…so they are close in age to me.
It does seem though, that most of my friends with children are getting divorces currently :( Some are in their 40s, some close to my age (early 20s)

I’m in college, married, and on my second child. No one in my groups of friends, and close to my age, are at the same point in life that I’m at family wise. But, we’re all still college minded it seems.

Kids marrying, kids having kids, parents dieing.

Soon it will be having Cancer, heart-attacks, etc.

Getting old can suck.

@pdworkin OK, specifically, people in your age group.

@rangerr Ya it got modded! But thanks for reading the original. It’s like….the beat just goes on. Both of my parents are gone, Rick’s Mom died 7 years ago, his dad, at 86, is getting close….and I’m staring my own mortality square in the face. I wish I could just go back…...to when my kids were little. And all my friend’s kids were little. And just stay there.

I am ½ A, just got my permit and all. My parents say I’m not that bad, either.

A lot of my friends are looking at retirement. In my job, we must announce months in advance and many of us announce at the beginning of the year so our projects can be picked up by others. Yesterday one colleague approached me to talk about it. She had planned to go another 2 years but some unwelcome changes are on the horizon (which also played a part in my decision) and there is no financial incentive to stay. Another friend who will be 70 loves his job, has great organizational skills and stretches resources to the limit to meet everybody’s needs. It has become obvious he is being edged out by restructuring his job. For my part, I am encouraging him to take on one of my projects if he wants to stay, while also talking about the benefits of retirement if he decides to go.

To those of you who are in the early stages of your worklife it might seem like we should all be “Woohoo-decent money, doing what we want to do, no more 5:30 am alarm, no more work related drudgery” But when you have spent 20–40 years surviving the storms and then building something to be proud of, turning in your keys and walking away gives pause.

We feel the same excitement and trepidation of new graduates, new parents, new homeowners and new employees but 4–5 decades of life experience makes us more aware of the limitations on our horizons

Most of my friends are getting married or having babies, or a combination of the two. I’m one of the only ones that hasn’t done either.

My friends range in age from late teens to late seventies. They are all busy living in an attempt to avoid dying. This is the best that any of us can do.

@DrasticDreamer Yet!
@Psychedelic_Zebra Well, you get to a certain age, and start looking back and it’s like….you went through all those stages, the same stages that every other person you age went through (for the most part) and suddenly, there you are, in the very last stage. The very last curtain call. In the end, there is no avoiding of dying. It’s a bit disconcerting. It’s disconcerting thinking back on all the mistake you made…...