It is said that one should thank old age because many never have the chance to become older. As far as relationships go, I have a hard time distinguishing whether the company we meet are picked by us subconsciously or if the religious aspect of "destiny" applies. Let me explain.
In my case and many others, there are very common trends. For most people, relationships with friends, significant others, etc. is in a general 2 year-ish age range. However, some people show characteristics for always being with older people or always being with younger people. For example, throughout my life, most of my friends have been in the same age group, give or take 5 years. However, in all of my intimate relationships, the woman has been at least 5 years older, some even 10.
As life progresses and I gain more experience, I notice the friends I keep are also significantly older. Excluding uni and those I'm forced to coerce with, the ones I choose are always significantly older. However, I'm not a huge fan of age; in fact, I put little emphasis on age at all. Therefore, its not like I'm looking for older people and surrounding myself with them...but I always end up befriending others and later finding out their age difference.
I discuss the difference between subconscious and destiny as two separate entities, but mind you, I'm not claiming they couldn't be two in the same. I am an atheist, so naturally my opinion is drawn towards subconscious. I feel that without knowing, people are naturally drawn towards others they're most compatible with and for some, it just happens those people are older/younger/the same age. But how would you subconsciously know? How would your subconscious determine age without truly knowing? Are our senses that acute or is my greatest fear coming true?...that destiny plays a role. Maybe somehow, we're all drawn towards those who we need to be around. Mind you, we all stray and have the occasional opposite of what we'd normally choose...and those turn out to be the best learning experiences; but for a majority of us, it stays relatively even.
Its not only myself I relate this to. I've examined many people and I find this trend everywhere. Think of your life...what has your trend been? Do you have a trend? Do you believe subconscious or destiny decides who we meet and become attached to? Or is it an illusory correlation and completely random?
I've tried to squander the illusory correlation by looking up age demographics. However, they only record ages 15-64 in the same group. As I see these statistics, I realize that, to the government, we're just niggas of the working class to make them money. Why else would they record preschool, grade school, older, and working class...working class being the largest variable with almost 50 years of discrepancy. That's three out of eight life stages skipped over with one statistic!
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