Why Do We All Think We're So Cool When We're Young?

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Lynx

Lynx

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laura_charlotte said:

Wrong. As a sixteen year old I interviewed a Jewish couple in their 80's who had been part of World War II. I documented and recorded the experience and it's now in a local museum along with all their artefacts from that period. On the family side, I absolutely loved coming home to my grandparents after school and have had their own house as my second home growing up. Since I was young, I found my grandparents and elderly people like them in character, the most encouraging, loving sources of nurture that God could have ever blessed me with. This was the general consensus in my life from all the friends and family that I grew up with to today.
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You completely missed the point. I was not saying old people are boring. I was saying MANY YOUNG PEOPLE think old people are boring. Always read the whole post, not just the first paragraph.

But I am glad for you that you know the wisdom of paying attention to elders. Since I was a kid I have watched those older than I, mostly for cues as to what was really important in life.
 
laura_charlotte

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Lynx said:
Also old people are BORING! They move slow and talk slow. No kid has time for actually thinking about what he says, and old people that actually deliberate about what to say take forever and three years to hold a conversation.
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Lynx said:
You completely missed the point. I was not saying old people are boring. I was saying MANY YOUNG PEOPLE think old people are boring. Always read the whole post, not just the first paragraph.
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I didn't miss your point at all. I read your entire post and addressed the points you made in kind. I'll reiterate, from my own upbringing and now particularly as an early childhood and primary school teacher, young people in my experience, as I stated in my post from the outset, don't think or act that way at all. It's that simple. I've known them to hold different beliefs and practices to what you've claimed, it's a simple disagreement you just need to accept.
 
Lynx

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Perhaps young people in your specific area generally revere their elders. If that is so, be grateful.
 
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