How I feel about old people..

It’s not that I don’t like old people, I actually adore them. I think they look really cute and when they smile, they look like they’ve lived this whole life of happiness. They look so peaceful and calm and just overall really content on a daily basis. I just don’t like certain qualities about them. Because of the fact that they’re really slow, they tend to be really messy. And, whenever you go to kiss them they tend to give sloppy wet kisses (that's disgusting). But other than that, they’re pretty cool. One thing I really like about them is that if you ever try to talk to them or ask them to go for a walk they get really excited. Well at least my grandparents do. And if you make them feel needed by trying to be more dependent of them, you can tell they feel appreciated and worthy. Every time I ask my grandmother for anything, she smiles really big. I really do enjoy happy old people. It’s the grumpy ones I dislike. I used to have a grumpy neighbor. I always tried to smile at her and she’d just stare. After a while I gave up on trying to smile, I just sort of stared back until she looked away. Then we just stopped making eye contact and went on with our lives.

I also noticed that a lot of teens (including myself) seperate old people from our generation. We exclude old people as if they're a different type of species because we feel like we can't relate to them. They grew up in a different time period with different values and social standards. Our generation (teens and young adults) has modernized technology and really changed our values and social standards since then. The crazy thing is, as we get older and time progresses and more new things come out, we're going to be looking at the younger generation the same way we look at old people. I guess to the old people now its kind of depressing to see time change. They used to cook, clean, help raise brothers/sisters.. etc, and earn most their money. We might do some of these things but we tend to blow them off more to go hang out with our friends, text, go online, watch t.v, etc. We have so many distractions from our lives that we miss out on the important stuff. I feel like at this point in time, trying to connect with old people is useless. We've already given up and we both make incorrect assumptions about the other and put them into false sterotypes that arnt true for all old people.