There you go twisting My words again. For the 5th time, it is not your attraction I take issue with. Are you not capable of reading that particular sentence? Because you choose to continuously ignore it.
But this was not what was stated. What was stated is that younger people are ignorant/immature. And it was that I took issue with, and nothing else.
I have no qualms about stating again that overall, younger people are generally more naive than older people. It's a general rule. That doesn't mean that ALL younger people are ALWAYS more naive or ignorant. But as a general rule, yes, it's true. People generally mature as they age. It's a natural progression.
Please don't tell me that you know just as much when you were 7 as you do now, that you have been this mature your whole life, and that there never was a time when you were ignorant. There's a world of difference there, just like there's a world of difference between 20 years old and 50 years old.
This whole being offended thing at somebody saying that kids aren't as mature as older people is a sign of adolescence itself. There's the idea that one knows pretty much all they need to know, while coming to realize that elders as human like everybody else. All while trying to carve out one's own identity. What a hectic time...and believe it or not, we've all been there before. I can even recount some eerily similar conversations with my
own parents back when I was 19.
Des, look. Don't take it personally. It's not a dig, I promise. My reasoning for not being attracted to 16 year olds and people who look 16 is being taken really really harshly by you. It's a fact of life that people generally mature as they age, and yet because I feel that I can't connect with somebody with so little life experience, you're taking this as an insult to young people and to you.
You keep saying you're wasting breath on deaf ears, so why are you continuing to argue with me? What are you trying to accomplish? Trying to prove I'm prejudiced? That I've got something against young people? I gave you my resume, and I'm highly successful with youth and teens in our area (in fact, I'm often requested to work with the young folk because I understand them so well). The only thing I can think of that you have such a problem with is because you don't see yourself as naive, and you see other older adults in your life as being very ignorant, and so you're projecting your reality onto the entirety of humanity.
That - again - is one of the hallmarks of young adult thinking. When the kind of energy of overtly-confident, all-knowing, and invincible perspective is channeled well, it's remarkable. And teens and young adults offer something very unique to the world that us old folks don't have anymore. So keep your chin up, des. It's not the end of the world that you don't have everything under your belt. You got something....
youth. A future. An open road. It's a very very good thing.
I swear I'm talking to my oldest son right now. LOL