I Do Not Like Getting Old
As one gets older, the young think we have lost the hope of the future. We no longer can live for the dreams as they can and we once did.
When we try to discourage them from doing things rashly or when we try to stop them from making the same mistakes we did, we become the enemy.
Then they lump all of us older people into one big group! That group chases the young away from all of us older people.
To many of us they are silly. To many of us they are not thinking. They don't think things through and are headed towards mistakes and hurt.
We have learned that knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Though we never would have admitted to that when we ourselves were young.
We have learned to go at things with caution. But could it be that we now allow our caution to get in our way? Fear stops so many I have seen and known.
What I see the most though is that when we become complacent and feel there is nothing to fear, things go wrong or bad. So many thought their future was all rosy, yet the financial crisis took away all they had to live out their lives in comfort.
Seldom when we take a chance to do things do things go bad or wrong. We are now wise enough to see problems coming and head them off by changing our plans slightly.
Maybe instead of alienating the young we should politely offer some of what we learned.
Not in a demanding know it all way, but politely as a friend.
Suggestions instead of telling or orders. Talking to them, not at them.
How did we feel way back when, if someone told us?
Yet if someone suggested, we listened. We may not have heeded the suggestions at the time, yet we retained the information and used it later to help us succeed.
The people that suggested to us made us feel the intelligence they knew we had. Even though we did not yet have the wisdom to use it properly.
Most of the wisdom we learned was learned over many years of messing up. It didn't come magically to us and it won't to them.
By making friends with the young instead of barking orders to them like an old nasty dog, there is a lot better chance they will be around to help us when our older bodies will no longer do the physical work that needs done.
When we try to discourage them from doing things rashly or when we try to stop them from making the same mistakes we did, we become the enemy.
Then they lump all of us older people into one big group! That group chases the young away from all of us older people.
To many of us they are silly. To many of us they are not thinking. They don't think things through and are headed towards mistakes and hurt.
We have learned that knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Though we never would have admitted to that when we ourselves were young.
We have learned to go at things with caution. But could it be that we now allow our caution to get in our way? Fear stops so many I have seen and known.
What I see the most though is that when we become complacent and feel there is nothing to fear, things go wrong or bad. So many thought their future was all rosy, yet the financial crisis took away all they had to live out their lives in comfort.
Seldom when we take a chance to do things do things go bad or wrong. We are now wise enough to see problems coming and head them off by changing our plans slightly.
Maybe instead of alienating the young we should politely offer some of what we learned.
Not in a demanding know it all way, but politely as a friend.
Suggestions instead of telling or orders. Talking to them, not at them.
How did we feel way back when, if someone told us?
Yet if someone suggested, we listened. We may not have heeded the suggestions at the time, yet we retained the information and used it later to help us succeed.
The people that suggested to us made us feel the intelligence they knew we had. Even though we did not yet have the wisdom to use it properly.
Most of the wisdom we learned was learned over many years of messing up. It didn't come magically to us and it won't to them.
By making friends with the young instead of barking orders to them like an old nasty dog, there is a lot better chance they will be around to help us when our older bodies will no longer do the physical work that needs done.
By:
oldfarmguy
Age:
56-60
,
Male
