It's Time to Get Out the Red Carpet
Why would a young person see an advantage in aging if most older people they’re exposed to complain all the time, focus on the past and yank back on their aged ideas like they were snagging and reeling in a huge pike? Would there be any hope in aging? I’m not talking about physical traces of aging. I’m talking about the possibility we can evolve our opinions, values and dreams over time. Young people need hope, they are deciding what they want for their life, their future. It’s not helpful for them to worry about dilemmas aged people keep putting front-forward. They need space. They need to feel trust in us to keep our act together so the youth have room to create chaos, take risks and gamble on their own future, which means to make inevitable mistakes we all did. I believe wholeheartedly we are not doing youth any favors by giving the impression we float on our merits when we get “older”. It’s difficult, but we need to impress on them each year there is hope. Seeing our open-mindedn