I have observed that sometimes old people don’t understand their opinion is unwanted.
I’m approaching old. I need to remind myself that I don’t understand the struggles the youth have these days. I had it hard, sure, but their struggles and worries are not the same as mine. It’s a different world.
So unsolicited advice + thinking the kids are doing it wrong is an easy path to mean/angry.
I’m also old and i feel this way about many young people. I understand and appreciate that they’re experiencing many things for the first time, but sometimes their oversharing is exhausting.
Unsolicited advice disguised as a question.incoming: is your relationship with these young people such that you have to listen?
I do mentorship (which is actually very perplexing that they want me to do this lol) and it takes so much energy that I have to really space it out but other than that I mostly kinda just let them do their own thing and don’t pay much mind unless asked to 🤷🏻♀️
I have observed that sometimes old people don’t understand their opinion is unwanted.
I’m approaching old. I need to remind myself that I don’t understand the struggles the youth have these days. I had it hard, sure, but their struggles and worries are not the same as mine. It’s a different world.
So unsolicited advice + thinking the kids are doing it wrong is an easy path to mean/angry.
I’m also old and i feel this way about many young people. I understand and appreciate that they’re experiencing many things for the first time, but sometimes their oversharing is exhausting.
Unsolicited advice disguised as a question.incoming: is your relationship with these young people such that you have to listen?
I do mentorship (which is actually very perplexing that they want me to do this lol) and it takes so much energy that I have to really space it out but other than that I mostly kinda just let them do their own thing and don’t pay much mind unless asked to 🤷🏻♀️
Most times i probably zone out. With family i try hard to listen.