Truth #1 - The elderly have wisdom to share and once they are gone so is their wisdom. I often wish I had written down the stories I was told as a young person by my elderly relatives. Instead of rolling my eyes and thinking that the old fools knew nothing and that I knew everything, I now know that the old fools knew everything and I knew nothing at all. What the old fools tried to give me was something more valuable than gold itself, but I was too blind to see what was right in front of me. All I needed to do was stop and listen, stop and learn and stop and love. It really is such a simple thing to do, but as a young person it was probably one of the most difficult things to do in life.
I wonder why that is. I remember talking to my grandmother yet there were times where I just want to be out and about I was a teen or in my 20s. I wish I had talked to her more. I remember asking what inventions in her lifetime she's liked the most. she said the microwave and the one she hated the most was the airplane because it's too easy now for everyone to leave. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteIn part, that's why I have done this blog so my children and whoever is interested can go back and read my ramblings I think I might start exploring some genealogy stuff on here.
DeleteThat's why i so enjoy time with my parents, they still have stories i haven't heard.
ReplyDeleteThat's precious and I'm so glad to hear that!
DeleteYes. And how I wish I had known more of my relatives. Immediate family was all I ever knew...
ReplyDeleteI hate to hear that. One side of my family was rather large and the other I hardly knew.
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