Back in the last century I remember being young and thinking that I knew everything. When my Children became teenagers and students I was faced with failings from long ago. When you have the energy and optimism of youth its difficult to accept that experience also has value. The young forget that the older generations were also young and that they haven't forgotten those days they just see them in a different retro-active light. I still don't believe that experience gives you all the answers, but I wish I had paid more attention to that different point of view when I was younger.
Why is it so difficult to communicate to the young, and in particular to your own children, the things that you've learned usually from making mistakes yourself. Maybe there's the possibility of a book here. "Lesson's Learned Too Late" by A Collective of Old People. I could go around interviewing a selection of people and asking them what is the one piece of advice they would give a young person based on a mistake they made in their own lives. I think that would make a pretty good book (I'd be interested in reading it myself, Just in case there are mistakes I haven't made yet, that I can avoid).
Today was a Fasting day ... I wonder if my blog posts have a different flavour on fasting days? I'll have to do a statistical analysis when I get to 365.
Why is it so difficult to communicate to the young, and in particular to your own children, the things that you've learned usually from making mistakes yourself. Maybe there's the possibility of a book here. "Lesson's Learned Too Late" by A Collective of Old People. I could go around interviewing a selection of people and asking them what is the one piece of advice they would give a young person based on a mistake they made in their own lives. I think that would make a pretty good book (I'd be interested in reading it myself, Just in case there are mistakes I haven't made yet, that I can avoid).
Today was a Fasting day ... I wonder if my blog posts have a different flavour on fasting days? I'll have to do a statistical analysis when I get to 365.
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