IT’S TOO LATE TO MAKE FRIENDS AT 40 BECAUSE BY THEN YOU’RE WISER AND YOUR TRUST LEVEL IS LOW”— Celestine Donkor
Award-winning Ghanaian Gospel musician Celestine Donkor has considered the difficulties of making new friends in maturity, stating that it gets much harder after turning forty.
The Ghanaian gospel singer clarified in an Okay FM interview that growing older brings caution, mistrust, and a limited circle of trust, qualities that make it more difficult to connect with new people.
“It’s too late to make friends at age 40 because by then, your trust level is low and you’re wiser now. You don’t easily embrace people like that. It’s a time where you like to be alone because experiences have taught you something,” Celestine said.
According to her, most people have established social networks by midlife, so there isn’t much space for newcomers.
“Whoever you have at that age too is coming from somewhere with their friends already, so, it’s not easy for you to just fit in,” Celestine explained.
Because those relationships frequently act as emotional anchors later in life, she advised young people to be deliberate about the company they keep early in life.
“Choosing a friend is being very intentional about selecting the correct friends you can grow up with because life gets very lean when you’re growing up,” the singer counselled.
Genuine connections, she continued, offer happiness and balance in maturity.
“This is a very important decision that a young person must learn — to seriously pick good friends and grow together with them. At your age, at age 40, if you don’t have friends you travel and have fun with to de-stress yourself, then you’ve missed out on that thing,” Celestine Donkor averred.
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