Socialism is life these days...! Since last two months living with so many relatives and peers and I am almost addicted to bulk of people, noisy environment and lots of food.
Unfortunately, I can not stop observing people even in these rare situations.
I see people showing different approaches to different age people. I am not even free from that. Example is, we approach to child with lot of affection and love while to aged people we take them for granted and ask them to follow us. On the contrary, one who do not even understand our complete surrender i.e. children we just obey them, request them to love us, hug us, kiss us or do even the silliest thing which we otherwise afraid to do in public. Strange but our mannerism do not allow us in public to show the same level of acceptance, love and care to old age people. Perhaps, they require the same degree or even more love than what we give to children.
Our ego has lot to play in that. When we deal to aged people, we are afraid of counter reflection be it in terms of opinions or acts. We have walls of prejudices and beliefs before appearing to them and which never allow our comfort zone to relax. Few examples of these prejudices and beliefs are - "They never like it?", "They always misunderstand me.", "They style of living is completely different than us, they don't understand what's new and welcoming?" Now on the other side, we have no problems in putting our ego aside in conveying a child but we feel really shy and ashamed of surrendering our ego if the other person is above 30-40 years. Really difficult to understand why age makes us so rigid and I am sure all of us do not even realize this thing. If we realize, those feelings are always late.
Perhaps that's why it is said that it's easy to be knowledgeable than being gentle.
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