Older - wiser, younger - reckless, how true is it?

How many times have you heard that you are supposed to listen to and obey older people, they have experience, they know better, they are much more informed. And it is true, in a way. Older people have had experiences we have yet to encounter and maybe they have seen something that we will never have the opportunity of experiencing.

But I still have to put that ''but'' in the middle, experience and wiseness doesn't always go hand in hand. I have met kids who are wiser than some of their parents, I have met teenagers who have stronger minds than some of the older human beings. I know, as kids you are constantly reminded that adults know better, you should listen to them, and that is partly true, adults have had more experiences, just like a sixty year old has more experience than a thirty year old, it doesn't mean the first one is wiser than the second.

And aren't those statements, that are saying that we need to listen to adults (that doesn't specify which ones, instead referring to the whole population), make us want to throw our childhoods away and take the reins in our hands? How annoying is it, that because of your age you are judged as more stupid than your peers that are older? Yes, life experience wise, the people walking on this earth longer are smarter, yes, I should listen to that basic advice about relationships and rushed decisions.

But should any of us worship somebody else's beliefs just because of age? Everybody gets wiser with age, that is inevitable, because we gather information all our lives, and our brains have the capacity to store all that information acquired over our lifetime, but... Let's not pretend every person is the same, some are born with much bigger capacity of thinking than others, there are some kids out there that have the brain that is double, tipple and quadruple of mine or any other persons, and those kids are constantly said that all the adults know better, ''he is a grown up, you need to listen to him'', which might not be the case.

Now, I am not talking about respect, I don't mean that you should be mean to somebody just because they are giving you advice, I mean, there are grown people who think they know better than everybody else, no matter the subject, if it is spiritual, in life experience or about occupation. And there are people who damage the young, brilliant souls by making them confused. A child's mind is easy to affect, I mean look at adults, even we get offended easily, how do you think it affects the little ones?

In school teachers are the authority. Who doesn't remember the one time the teacher was wrong? What was their reaction? At least half of the times they will argue you without even considering that you may be right, because they are the authority, they must always be right, it is not like people make mistakes (subtle irony here). As children we are taught that adults can't be wrong, we are thought to accept what the authority says without a doubt.

My point is, don't push somebodies brilliance down just because they are six or twelve or nineteen years old, it has been proven time over time that there are geniuses in the world, some kids are smarter than you, and some youths know better about how the world should be. And I know, in your time it was different, but times change, there are no benefits in huge egos and being stuck in times long gone.

I wish you the best day, week and life,
Linda