do old people really know what they're talking about? i used to think not, because old people are just people like you and me who have been living longer, and there's no magic portal that shifts you from young adulthood (where, supposedly, you know nothing) and regular adulthood (where you're wise in the ways of the world or something). but lately it seems like the old people are right... annoyingly right all the frickin' time. here are some examples:
1) "if it was meant to be, then it'll happen, if it doesn't, then it wasn't meant to be..." - this one has to do with my place. the first lottery that i entered, i was so stoked to be getting a chance and i thought that would be my one and only chance at finally having my own place, but i got shot down and was totally bummed. it seemed like the LONGEST time between that rejection and finally getting a place, but really, it was within the span of only one year... which brings me to:
2) "you never know what'll happen..." - as in, just go for it, put yourself out there and see what develops. who knew that it would take me five lotteries plus someone else backing out of their contract to get me my new place? you can't plan that stuff out, but the end result is the same.
3) "it's always when you least expect it..." - man, i can't tell you how many times in the past year or so i've heard this one (probably because i work with a whole room full of substitute "moms" who give me motherly advice all day long), but damn it if it ain't turned out to be true. of course, it makes you wonder... is it the expecting things that make them not occur or is it that when you do no expecting then your brain doesn't take note of the time inbetween things occurring? why does this line seem to be so darn consistently true? it's confounding!!
anyway, the point is... maybe i should start to listen to old people. haha, why is it that they're so annoying right all the time. not that i'm complaining, because it seems like maybe i already know the answer to this. you take a look at the life that you've led so far, and how many dead-ends in your life have turned into wonderful opportunities? if you backtrack all the good things in your life and try to rediscover how you got to those points in the first place, how strange does it seem that you are where you are right now? could you fathom even the tiniest bit how things would turn out from even the most auspicious of those beginnings? what the crap is up with that? i've got TONS of situations like that! look how i ended up at my job (which right now is very good), just two years ago i was thinking about quiting, and a year before that i was trying to work up the courage to drop the program and career path entirely, and the four years before that i could not comprehend the idea that i might one day have a job and go to work everyday instead of being in school. how do lives get so incredibly twisted (in good and bad ways), yet somehow seem to turn out into such realistic, plausible, and sometimes wonderful everyday experiences?
that must be the good part about life huh?
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old people know things. they are smart and have lots of experience. I know you're probably not really talking about old as in ancient but just older. I work with those ancient ones and they have a lot of good wisdom. there are ones who you totally think are off their rocker then will randomly say something with amazing clarity and insight.
listen to those old folks.
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