Ach, no Kris, neither quotes are the one I have in mind (Cicero). It was something like "being disrespectful" etc. and ending up with ..." and all write a book". The only funny quote - but I can't find it anymore <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />
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Kris: 48 eh?! At 58 I’m an absolute sucker for well read intelligent young women
Ach no - I was not well read in my youth (apart from political pamphlets). Too busy in protesting against everything and everyone <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> - got my regular colds cause I took part in so many demonstrations, discussed the nights through (and errhm... got up too late for school/university <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> ) - too busy in trying stuff out, like Übereil does now <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />
I liked the way you had fun with your son very much <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />! And here I fully agree with you. It's the young who come up with old/new ideas, the ones we may have forgotten, when we invented the wheel again.
I love heated discussions with youths - even about Shakespeare. I called Hamlet a depressive sucker a few weeks ago and could have shaken Ophelia cause she didn't simply kick and leave him. The 2 young ladies I chatted with defended him bravely! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> - same for Romeo and Juliet. They should have simply run away from the start and save pupils having to interpret this - the 2 ladies were shocked and defended romantic love again. These are the moments where I have the feeling => ah, the sandbox is not closed, generations CAN play in it together.
But these moments are rare - it's mostly eyeing each other across a moat. A moat dug by both generations BTW. And it's nice if I see a bridge to cross this, if the other side is willing to see me as a human being and not as an authoritative nagging oldie. It's nice if I'm confronted with a new, surprising argument. Am I nostalgic? Gee, hope not. I don't want to repeat this period again, with all its storms, inner insecurity etc. (and kidney probs, cause I wore hipsters, sat in the wet grass and discussed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> ) Kiya
and about wisdom? No, given up waiting for it in my case - seemed to have passed me unscathed. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />
