Whether you are mature, a granny or grandpa or just pre-senile like me have you noticed that no-one really listens to you any more. I just had a Devonshire tea for some of my friends. They are all younger than me, some more than twenty years younger and I had to actually raise my hand to get them to notice that a. I was present and b. that I wanted to say something. Maybe once a person gets to be sixty-six they really have nothing to say or what they do say is not interesting. However, I do sometimes have something to add to the conversation. I might be wrinkly but I have lived a long time and experienced things that they have not. Perhaps I might be able to give good advice but only if I put my hand up.
I believe it is time to insist on being heard. I am a person, a sentient being, a mature individual who refuses to be silenced by age or dismissed by the greater part of the population. I am not ready to fade into the wall paper and I damn well won't shut up just because younger people dismiss my little gems of wisdom and gems they are. I have managed to live through a very tumultuous relationship with my mother, a marriage breakdown with a person I considered the love of my life, I have had a child who has grown to be a lovely woman and finally I have managed somehow or another to deal with being bi-polar coupled with an anxiety disorder. If this is not experience then I don't know what is.
Listen to me I might be helpful. Listen to me you may see things in a different light. Listen to me you may learn how to forgive. Listen to me and take note to do things a little differently and not make the mistakes that I have made. Just listen to me.
Even if you do not listen to me I will not be silenced. I will keep on talking until my pre-senility becomes senility and then I will finally shut up.
Sorry what was that you said. I didnt realise that you were there either, just those magnificent scones and the dissapointing cake - that cake although it was really high and had a good flavor - what part of it was the RED Velvet - still cant work that out!! should there have been some jam in the middle or jelly?
ReplyDeleteSeems a shame you went to so much effort and the chatting did get loud, I dont think your were ignored so much as your werent loud enough (now how can that be)
Will make up for it next time!!!