As a Christian i can’t believe everything I’ve seen in my 42 years. I remember as a young teen hearing my grandfather lamenting the state of the world and me thinking he was going overboard and didn’t take him as seriously as I should’ve
That's the folly of youth, thinking that your elders are overreacting and out of touch. Only when we find ourselves in the role of "elder" do we realize how right they were.
One of the worst things this modern society has done is convince the young that there is nothing worthwhile to gain from listening to the generations that came before them. They have been convinced to discard ideas simply because they are 'old' and from the past. Therefore, every subsequent generation has to learn that hard earned knowledge all over again at quite the cost.
As a Christian i can’t believe everything I’ve seen in my 42 years. I remember as a young teen hearing my grandfather lamenting the state of the world and me thinking he was going overboard and didn’t take him as seriously as I should’ve
That's the folly of youth, thinking that your elders are overreacting and out of touch. Only when we find ourselves in the role of "elder" do we realize how right they were.
The elders were wrong. Things were worse than they thought.
Yea this is part of the reason I try not to be too harsh with teens. I was once a dumb teenager who thought my parents were clueless
-Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan (1980)
One of the worst things this modern society has done is convince the young that there is nothing worthwhile to gain from listening to the generations that came before them. They have been convinced to discard ideas simply because they are 'old' and from the past. Therefore, every subsequent generation has to learn that hard earned knowledge all over again at quite the cost.
Yep. Also a good Bob Dylan lyric from My Back Pages “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”.