reach.

First, let's start off with the fact that I absolutely LOVE the elderly.  I think grandmas and grandpas are really cute, and I sometimes want to walk up to the ones I see around town and start talking with them and be friends... They are so smart and have so much life experience that I honestly find them very intriguing. 


Do any of you ever go to restaurants or coffee shops (or anywhere) and see an elderly man or woman sitting by themselves, eating dinner, or drinking their coffee?  By themselves is the key part to that sentence.  When I see them looking lonely, it makes me really sad.


Last night, Josh and I were with his grandparents at a restaurant, and in the booth next to us, there was a man, probably in his 70's or 80's, who sat by himself and ate alone, and kept trying to hear our conversation.  Not in a creepy way, but more like he was just really lonely and wanted to hear some sort of adult conversation, and wanted to make some sort of connection with someone.  


I guess the reason for this post is that I wish I could gather the guts to walk into a restaurant and go sit with one of these people.  I think a lot of these people look and feel really lonely, and I don't want that when I am their age.  I want to do this someday.  


I wish we didn't see age, and could reach out more as a generation...