Seniors are alone! Seniors are alone! Lonely Seniors Everywhere!

Tim Dibble
Crow’s Feet
Published in
4 min readAug 6, 2023

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When science barks up the wrong tree

Photo by Caroline Selfors on Unsplash

https://www.seniorcare.com/featured/aging-alone-study/

You heard that right, more and more people are going through life alone and there are more and more senior people that are alone. It's a disaster of biblical proportions! Go forth and build a new ark!

Articles blame divorce. Articles blame the growing economic equality between men and women. Articles blame longevity. Articles blame smaller families.

Poppycock!

Seniors are alone because of one reason and one reason alone: Baggage!

Once you get past 25, you’ve got baggage.

Baggage doesn’t mean that you have crazy exes, a bevy of young dependents, or criminal records.

Baggage means you have habits.

That’s right.

By the time you are 25 you know which side of the bathroom sink your toothbrush goes. In all likelihood, in 45 years, no matter how many other bathrooms you’ve been in or owned, your toothbrush will still be in approximately the same relative location as it was when you were 25.

Why is that baggage? There are only two sides for the toothbrush anyway, the right side and the wrong side. Or…

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Tim Dibble
Crow’s Feet

Dog Father connecting the dots with a touch of humor. I write to entertain and maybe share a bit of wisdom.