Hello, so you're here! Anyways, I wanted to write about something I have been thinking about and has been bothering me a bit. I don't really know where to start, but I guess I'll start it off this way.
When anyone thinks of an adult, they automatically think that they should be given respect and that they have all the power. But when someone thinks of a kid, they imagine a tiny human who is supposed to follow all the rules and respect all the adults.
It's true that we should respect people. The thing that bothers me is when people say, "Respect your elders". It makes it seem like adults are superior, that they're the only ones who should get respect. But EVERYONE deserves respect, no matter their age.
When you ask someone why it's the adults who should get all the respect and are "superior", we are often told that it's because they have more life experience and are wiser. But older does not wiser.
For example, I'm friends with a little kid who is 7 years old, and she eats really healthy food. She eats salads and vegetables, anything like that. Meanwhile, there are lots of adults that don't eat so healthy, like chips or something like that.
So then what, you're probably asking yourself, makes a person wiser? It is open-mindedness. Being open minded to new ideas, learning new things, trying new foods, is what a wise person is. A wise person does not have to be an adult. It can be a 7 year old who was open minded to trying a salad.
This isn't saying that kids are wiser and adults are not, because no. This is just saying that EVERYONE can be wise. Not just adults. Not just kids. EVERYONE.
I can't read your mind, so I don't know if you're getting it now, but this post is starting to get long, so I'm only going to say one more thing. Why, you may ask, did this idea that adults are wiser ever start. Well, I don't know the answer to this. There was probably a wise adult and somebody decided that that means that older means wiser or something and it probably stuck. But the old ways aren't always better. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they're not. In this case, I think we need to let go of the old ways and listen to new ideas about this.
So I'll just leave you with this: When it comes to being wise, or really, a lot of other things, age should not play a role. It's being open minded that makes someone wiser, not being older. So, you see, going back to the beginning of this post, EVERYONE deserves respect. EVERYONE deserves to have a say in a desicion. EVERYONE deserves, well...a lot of things, no matter their age.
So, I'd like to hear your thoughts on this matter. What do you think?
