Hello, fellow redditors! If you came here looking for a friend, I would love you to lend me your ear 😁, and once I have it, I'll try to be quick.

I am a man in his mid-50s, who has done a lot in his life and achieved quite a bit relative to where I started, only to realize that I should have paid more attention to having more friends. Work comes and goes, but nothing can replace a truly intimate human connection. I can see that this group may feel a bit oversexed sometimes, so I have to say that am using the word intimate to indicate that I am not asexual, and hopefully neither are you, but what I am primarily looking for is closeness, not a particular physical endeavor a man and a woman can do together. I am quite skilled at that, if I may say so myself, but, paradoxically, what I am looking for is someone to go on a hike, visit a museum or an exhibition with, talk about a book (hopefully a non-fiction book, since I find real life way more fascinating than any flight of fancy of any one person, no matter how talented) or a movie (hopefully not made in Hollywood. Please, please don't be a hardcore Marvel fun).

I work in an industry with mostly young colleagues around me, and do well in this environment, so you don't have to be my age to connect well with me, but please don't drink too much of the modern pop culture KoolAid - my sarcasm about it will drive you insane. I am always inquisitive about everything, and would love you to also naturally question opinions of any influencer you come across. Or anyone else for that matter, myself included.

I am a recovering caregiver. I am not completely cured of this affliction yet, so I hope you don't mind my trying to care for you every so often. I now know where the boundary between care and obsession is, and I have all intention not to cross it. But it would be nice if you are able to accept some care sometimes. If you are a fiercely independent woman, and you value it above anything else, you will be perplexed by me trying to do some little things for you, things that you could have easily done yourself, and it will be stressful for us both, and I want that for neither of us.

I am very often being stereotyped for my age and race, so to paint a slightly more colorful picture of me for you, I will outline where I am not really fitting into it all that much. In most everything else I am probably your typical mid-50s guy, lol.

* I am white, but none of my ancestors brought any smallpox to these shores

* I have been to great many churches in my lifetime. As a tourist

* I don't own a truck. My vehicle gets 50 MPG

* I spent time in the army, but I don't own guns. I own more plants than some gun owners have rounds of ammo

* I don't have a MAGA hat or a t-shirt. But I do have many a NASA one

* I don't like football or baseball. But I am able to sit and watch it out of politeness to the hosts

I should wrap this up here. This was not supposed to compete with War and Peace for text length ... If anything here piqued your interest, you can always chat or message me here, and we can talk and find plenty more of common interests, I am sure!

Cheers!