In my experience, the late family members silence the elderly among ones community. I have always found that they sit back and observe the generation after them in silence, as if they could not relate. My misconceptions of the elderly have reassessed. My girl friends grand parents are the most liberal elderly couple I have ever met. The places they have been and the education they received helped them be just that. Her grand folks were very accepting to me and had very nice things to say about me. I thought I was stealing their thunder;everyone but me knew that everyone was just trying to fit me in to my place in the family.
The grand folks topped off the welcome with their interest in me. Everything about elderly people is not the same. I don't know why elderly don't interfere with the younger in many situations, but I was reminded that "old people" have seen and done it all. I won't take that for grant just because they are less mobile and fragile today. They have done it all.
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