Quick Question for the Older Cats

Do you feel the younger kids/people have something knowledgable to share
or that you feel you could learn off someone younger that maybe hasnt
tramped around as long as them
Basically do you see them as a lesser or equal
Please Be Honest when answering this
blessed be
love and light

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Ho Measa,

wanted to let some one else get on about this, as you already should know the answer from me - but I'll just put it out there general anyway.
Technology advances everyday, and a lot of us oldy-but-goodys can't keep up with it.
Tends to happen that as you get older, you get fixated on what you know - where your own interests lay, and god knows there's alot of exciting things that can come from recombinations or just plane new concepts that plenty of us 'elders' have our heads too buried up .... to be able to see.
And before I go, let me say that iffn a older cannot see his way to grow and be able to use what someone younger might have to show them - well I got's to wonder how they wasted their time, on what lessons, to leave one so as omportant as not prejudging out of their curriculum.

Have a Blessed one, and Be my brother that which calls within you to Be.

Namaste (my spirit bows to your spirit)

 

I guess I think of younger people as neither equal or lesser, just at different stages of life. They can't be equal because they haven't lived as many years on this planet, but not lesser, because each person has the opportunity to learn and acquire essential knowledge, yet not everyone takes advantage of this opportunity. I listen to what younger people have to say, but I find myself getting a bit disillusioned with some of the youths language choices. I don't doubt that everyone has something to contribute, but I tend to pay more attention if the poster presents themselves as an intelligent human being.

 

Ditto on both replies

Loving listening
Younger listens to the elders
Elders listens to the young
Results.....Always listening grows
an keeps the door open to a much wider perception
of wisdom

 

Age doesn't mean less or more knowledge. I jump on any chance to learn new things. In fact! A male on this site, who is younger than me, happens to know more than me about guitar playing has helped me, and many others.

My answer is Hell YES we old farts can learn new tricks from you younger folks.

 

Basically, do I see them(younger kids/people) as a lesser or equal?

I really don't look at the world that way.

What I think is;
Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
Nobody can do it all, but everybody can do something.
Sometime everyone needs help from someone, and other times everyone can help someone.
I really do believe that what goes around, comes around. That includes helping others.
I really do believe in treating others the way I'd like them to treat me. That includes respect.

Do I feel the younger kids/people have something knowledgable to share?

Sure, some do. Same goes for children, older people, very old people and those in between. Same goes for people who are male, female, red, brown, yellow, black, white and green with yellow dots. Same is true for trees, rocks, birds, the wind, and the spirits that seem to inhabit certain places. If all these would share, and all of us would listen... Oh my, what a world we would have.

But, that's just this old hippie's opinion.

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

I have 7 kids..obviously they are all younger then me and 1/2 of them are the same ages as the members who post alot in the "Young Hippies" forum. If I can learn things or just see something in a new way from my kids then I probably could learn something from every YH here.

 

I've raised 7 sons starting when I was 23...now at 60 I'm raising my last, a 13 year old wild man who has great hunger and joy for life. Each of these young men have taught me many things as I have also taught them. Equals on a spiritual level, I am a father and by definition, then a teacher and guide among many other things. Young souls, as they are growing in this life, are often closer to God than I am. I listen to how they experience God whethter thru a ritual aproach or simply by the way they live. Young and old are such a sweet balance for each other if communication is open. Grand kids are beginning to wander my farm now too. Yet more to share for all of us.

 

blessed be to all of yall
i thank you for everything
im glad to see or hear that people do
realize the growing never stops
"""(from birth to death)"""
we will always be
learning , growing, loving
the cosmic circle of life
has only limitless
blessing's, beauty's, and freedom's
to any willing to share the love thats with-in
love and light all my family
Thank you again
~measa~
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I have 7 dogs who act like kids. Younger people are more likely to speak of knowledge with the right feelings in their tone of voice, it's called heart.
The older I get, being scammed and delayed by others, the harder it is to have the spunk and honesty in the voice tone. Lots of great comments here, Merry Christmas!
my website
http://www.honorseed.com


The Time has come to talk of many things

 

the age of earth being a school is passing

children incarnating now have come to play... as it is meant to be

school is out for ever

 

i've loved reading all the answers posted here. most express how i feel about things as well. to be realistic, i'd love to have some younger person teach me some of the technology i can't seem to absorb these days. i walked into best buy a few weeks ago and was frightened to know that i didn't know how to use fully half the things thay have in that store. maybe we older hippies have used up all of our "grey matter" by a certain age. it sure is harder to learn new things. but that doesn't mean we don't want to. in fact..what i consider the point in your life where you become an adult has nothing to do with age. it's when you admit for the first time that you don't know everything. most younger people only THINK they know it all. we were all like that. those who choose to remain that way and never believe they can learn from others no matter what the age...are the people i try to avoid.
what bothers me most about a lot of young people (though i don't find it to be true on this board...but on lots of others) is when they try to tell me what the world was like during the times that us older people lived through. i am constantly astounded by people who weren't alive during the 60's-70's telling me "facts" that they picked up on some website and then arguing that this is the way it was. no matter how much you read or absorb from books/the internet...you'll never know as much about it as someone who lived through that time or experience. i find this to be an attitude that is much more recent in our culture. as an example...years ago i met a woman who had seen elvis when he was an unknown touring on the back of a hay truck. she had pictures of him with her. i couldn't wait to ask her all about the experience and try to pick her brain for any little detail she could remember. on the other hand, i was on a website where someone who was about 35 and an "expert" on bob dylan argued with me about an early village appearance that i was at... while he wasn't even born yet. i have yet to figure out why it was so important to him that he was "right" but i'm sure his ego was involved. not to mention his jealousy that some of us got to be there, and no matter what he thought he knew or could learn..it was never going to replace that experience. this type of person used to be the anomaly but is way too prevelant nowadays. i think in part it's what gives some of us older people a bad impression of those who are younger. but we can all always continue to learn from each other.

 

gee Molly, over 2700 posts and no pics in the gallery.....mmmmmmmmmm

 

Because of the changes in the times, I honestly do not feel that the real Hippie experience of the 60's-70's can ever be relived by the younger hippies. Wisdom comes with experience and age.

However, I have learned quite a bit from listening to the refreshing thoughts and opinions of the young. They have a lot to say, and they say it well!

 

What I think is;
Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.
Nobody can do it all, but everybody can do something.
Sometime everyone needs help from someone, and other times everyone can help someone.
I really do believe that what goes around, comes around. That includes helping others.
I really do believe in treating others the way I'd like them to treat me. That includes respect. -Poor old dad





Very well stated. What we don't know is much greater than what we will ever know.If given the opportunity to learn from somone younger I will always be open to learn it. The day we stop learning,is the day we stop.

 

I feel that old and young can teach each other many things....for one , we can teach them patience , and they can teach us that enthusiasm that the young seem to have , as if each thing they discover is brand new and magical. We , as we get older , semm to lose that by being a bit jaded....its sad.

 

i am sad i wasn't born when the hippie movement began. i probably was before, but i can't remember it, and was reincarnated in the mid-eighties.
i love old hippies, and wish i had more of an opportunity to communicate with them.
we young hippies face problems that were not available in the older days, such as AIDS and very strict laws and control on mind-altering substances, but at the same time, we have the benefit of technological advancements, progression in women's rights, gay rights, and free speech (although some would argue it's not so, especially after the patriot act)
all in all i think everyone can learn from us, and we from them. only the old hippies can truly talk about living back then, as we have not. and many younger kids are just all about the drugs and the rebellion, and don't want to talk to the 'old farts'

i however consider myself an exception (i love old farts! ) and i am sure many young hippies on here would be glad to make the same declaration.

 

One of the sad truths about the internet is that it don't work too well at passing along learned wisdom - really needs that face to face, spending some quality time together to make it real.

There are some places where this can occur - lots of the rainbows, and some Waystations along whatever Path you may be following.

Blessing Be along your Way

Namaste

 

Amen, O Sage of the Finger Lakes...

Someone once said that wisdom is the combination of knowledge and experience. Over the internet you can - perhaps - gain knowledge. But until you get out & do things & have many, various, experiences... in this old hippie's opinion... you won't gain, or attain, wisdom... enlightenment.

It's also been said that a picture is worth a thousand (or is it a million) words. I'd like to add to that, a first hand experience is worth more than a thousand pictures.

Learn - yes, but get out and do too.

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

I maintain my original post. Yes. I know that young people can teach my older azz new things. Interesting things.