The older I get, the more I realize the nonsensical blatherings I heard as a young man were not nonsensical at all. Youth truly is wasted on the young. Why could I not have understood, all those years ago, how amazingly powerfuly my parents and my siblings were on my development? Why could I not have understood that my need for, my efforts for, a life independent of my family and friends was silly and stupid and unattainable?
We really are products of our families...or, at least, our pseudo families.
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John, I have come to think that a lot of what's wrong with modern society is that we've been brain-washed into thinking that anything "old" is stupid and out-dated. Just my opinion, but I think it's the spin off of our consumer throw-away society - a society that values youth and "new-ness" (however fake that may be), over wisdom and reality. Not only do we toss out our sofas and refrigerators because they're now the wrong color or shape, but we regard anyone a decade older than ourselves incapable of possessing any knowledge that we might require. Of course, that's simply not true, and it isn't a universally held belief, but the notion is reinforced daily by everything around us. I think that, as we get older, the message gets a little old too, and we come to recognize the truth and learn to distinguish the difference between reality and fluff. It's just too bad it takes most of us a half a century to get to the poiint of realizing the importance of our roots.
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