During the weekend, as I was standing at a bakery with my family, I met an old gentleman whom I acquainted in the Church. He insisted and bought my wife and me a coffee and we shared our laugencroissant (type of croissant in Germany). Apart from feeding and playing with my little daughter, we spoke about several topics, including foreigners in Germany, his family, Indian food and his love for English language. No wonder he was proactively conversing in decent English (Most of the Germans can speak good English, however they are hesitant and prefer German to converse).
Before departing, he mentioned that current generation is busy with their own lives and have little time for anything around them and gave an example of his acquaintance who did not have time for a short talk, just before I joined him.
Fundamentally, we all agree that everyone needs social interactions in life to grow; unfortunately most of our interactions are subject to our personal goals and priorities. However I believe spending few minutes for others goals and priorities will do lot more to the society and add value to ourselves!
End of the day, I was happy that I could spend 15 minutes of my time with an aged man who was open and looking for social interaction.