Gen Z: Friendship Is Too Expensive. Boomers: Wait, What? – RedState

For many people – probably most – your teenage years are when you make friendships that last a lifetime. I don’t have many of these friends, but the few I do, I’m still in close contact, even if I live in Alaska, while they all live in Iowa and Minnesota. Only a few weeks ago, I spoke with my old Dave boyfriend, and he noted that we started dragging together fifty years ago. It is a long time to be friends, but we were the best friends through good and bad moments, through weddings and divorces, through various personal struggles and various personal triumphs, for half a century. We were there to congratulate each other when children and grandchildren were born; I was the first person that Dave called outside his family when his father died, and Dave was the first person outside my family whom I called when my father, of which I was very close, died.

We have gone through a lot of things together and you cannot attribute a value to friends like that.

So imagine my confusion when I see a report according to which some children of the Z generation avoid friendships because they are “too expensive”.

A new study indicates that most millennials and generation Z believe that friendships become too expensive.

The study, called “the friendship tab” and commanded by Ally Bank, found that 44% of generation Z and Millennials say they have jumped major social events due to the cost.

The study revealed that almost a quarter of generation Z And the millennials say they are afraid of lacking friendships and the community due to financial limitations, and 42% said they had exceeded activities with friends a few months of the year, while 18% said they had spent their budget every two months.

Have these young people never heard of parsimony? Live in the means? Well, here is an indicator:

Thirty-two percent of generation Z and Millennials said they were going to a bar or restaurant with friends at least every week.

Fifty-two percent of these groups of young people said they had one to three friends with whom they often meet.

Going out with friends does not require going to an expensive restaurant or a bar.

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I mentioned Dave. I could tell you about an afternoon with my parents in Bear Creek, in the county of Allamakee, Iowa. Dave had come to the place, and around noon, we made sandwiches, caught a bottle of pop and we sit in camp chairs in front of the house. We pulled on the breeze and looked at the stream to pass, and after about three hours that we only run our jaws, dad arrived by and we asked if we were going to do something other than we sit there. Of course, we responded in the negative, because sitting there all afternoon was precisely what we had in mind. Dad had other plans, and we ended up helping him bring a firewood Waggan. But it was good too.

We spend Friday and Saturday evening, very often, with a bunch of us sitting at the back of a parked pickup, along the Mississippi, or the yellow or superior rivers of Iowa, or along one of the many trout streams of the County of Allamakee. We would get a pack of 12 beers, sometimes something a little stronger, and we all talk about girls, trucks, fishing and hunting, and everything that came to my mind. Now, half a century later, with these same friends, we meet and talk about women (wives, most of them), trucks, fishing and hunting, and everything that comes to mind.

This is what life friendships look like. It’s a shame to see these children from the Z generation miss. It’s a shame to see two of them sitting at a table, eyes fixed on a phone screen, ignoring. It is a shame that they can miss friendships who will last a lifetime, because they cannot find a way to spend time with these friends who costs nothing – perhaps because they have no experience with simply sit and pull the breeze.

This is the point where some young people could go “ok, boomer”. But when these children are my age, they may feel the lack of someone they go path back.

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