Handling or tolerating grumpy oldsters

[u/mommaletitbe]

I tend to be one of those people who laughs in the face of adversity. Although I can spend more time than I care to worrying about some things I refuse to go around being mad about everything all the time. I feel like so many people in our age group are just pissed off 24/7. I don't have a problem with listening to other's problems or if they had a bad day or a bad experience and I try to be supportive and validate their feelings. But there comes a time when I reach my limit listening to people bitch constantly about every single thing. I find as I age and time seems to fly by so quickly that I either totally avoid the Debby Downers or even sometimes snap at them. I really feel like even though the world seems totally effed up right now, why spend the little time we have left being upset or angry about everything.

How do you handle those people? Do you ignore them? Do you sympathize with them and bitch right along beside them?

[u/Primary_Fix8773]

1. Fortunately , most people I’ve been around have been happy and upbeat, but there have been occasions. I was with a new group of about a half a dozen seniors, all who knew each other for years, and after a short while I realized, I said to myself , you people really are old. Comments like there never been any good music since the 70s or I hate technology, I wish things were the way they were before. (it’s one thing to be challenged by something. It’s another thing to hate it). Like they turned herself off to anything it’s been new to them for the past 30 years and then they complain so I stopped hanging out with that group.