The making of a Scrooge: Experts weigh in on why some older people are angry, isolated

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13. I think it's more

about being able to carry on a conversation.

I mean face it, we create a common culture through shared conditions. If we have no one around us to share those conversations with about our culture or conditions then what is there really to talk about besides the weather?

I enjoy the company of "story tellers" who tell things about events in their lives. They can take you back 20 years in their life and talk about something they did that was a hilarious. They can paint that picture...they are good at. You can literally imagine the younger version of them, what they looked like, etc...right down to the wall paper patterns.

With "story tellers" you will always have something to talk about as they love to talk and can talk about so many different things. They "lived life" and remember so many of the fine details and simply want to share.

My grandfather was a story teller, He was a man coming of working age right when the great depression hit and his family was already poor, enough is enough! But he'd tell ya about a fun time he had during a really shitty point in his life.

Now have I ever told you about that time I.......