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Originally posted by The Nomad
Gratitude and caring? I'm not even sure what that sentence is supposed to mean.
Anyway, the problem (if you can call it that) isn't that I'm too old. It's that you're all too young.I'm at a perfect age. Good times behind me, good times ahead of me. No worries.
I'll try to explain.....
Imagine a woman who honors the face of the Goddess in her changing face. A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom. Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes in her body and life.
That was taken from a poem by a woman called Patricia Lynn Reilly. My sister showed it to me; she's a little witch (wiccan). The rest of the poem is also very beautiful, but this explains what I meant. But imagine a man like that, to! It's just as important to men as women! I'm glad I misunderstood you there, btw; others being to young, not you being to old
But in the end I don't see the importancy of age at all. I think one should look at the person, not the birth certificate, when you decide what to think of a person. My father asked me a question once: "If you didn't know when you were born, how old would you think you were?" I didn't know what I would have thought when he asked me, and I don't know what I would think now. But it doesn't matter.
I know there's a lot of ppl around who are insecure about themselves, because the ppl around them expect them to be this way or that, because 'that's how a 10-year-old is' and 'that's how a 50-year-old is'. But that doesn't necesserily fit with what they really are like. They can act/be younger than expected for the age, you older, and any way it will present a problem.
Already when I was 15 years old, I sometimes wished I had wrinkles and a touch of grey in my hair, because then ppl around me would respect me for who I was, rather than expecting me to be something else. They wouldn't say "oh, but you havn't experienced so much, you wouldn't know". If someone told me that I should be happy for being young, because I would wish to be young again when my youth was over, I would get furious, because they expected me to not know what I was talking about - expecting me to become like them! But they didn't live their lives at the moment any more than I did, so why should I believe anything of what they said? Wasn't that hypocricy? What they said?
Because of this I won't judge anyone - not even when I think I know them, because I don't know what's going on inside of their heads. I don't take anything for granted. Because you never know. Translated very fast (part of a poem): "Nothing do we know; all we know is that everything is lonelyness. Everyone is alone." In their heads. So I won't judge, neither from age nor anything else......... (This does not mean I don't think things about a person, but the though always comes to my mind if I think this or that about someone - "you don't know - we don't know anything")
Did this make any sense to you? To anyone?
