Who is Teaching Who?

The thing I have come to realize is that the rat race is not the best thing. I lived in it for a long time, now I see that I was misled for a long time. To tell this to the young or middle age is a waste of time, they just think I am getting old. That I can't do these things anymore. I actually can, but when you have enough tools to fill a semi trailer to the roof and would need another two semitrailers to move the junk you accumulated over the ages, you find that these things are not so important as you used to think.

I like the video of the kids acting as older people trying to use a remote. It seems to me that the remote controls are actually causing us to get crippled. If we got up every half hour to change the channel, it would help circulation in our legs and we would have less problems with walking. We went the wrong way in society. Technology is making us sit too long and then sooner or later we will not be able to get up. I remember having to go walk to get the phone, now it is sitting at our side. I remember when we had to prepare everything to eat, now most people pop something in a microwave or get in the car and go through the drivethrough to pick up food.

Half the senior moments can be avoided just by eating properly. I can still take out the grandkids to go fishing, that is exercise and I and they enjoy it. We as grandparents should be teaching the grandchildren how to grow things and provide for their family, passing information on to them that we are taught. Teaching them that we are not old and frail. That means we should not eat all that prepared food all day long that is doping us up. We need to teach them that the old have a lot of knowledge that needs to be passed on. And we need to be patient with the grandkids, they have been taught that there is a generation gap, but a generation gap has never existed. My uncles and aunts did the same kind of things that I did, just a little different twist involved. The same goes for my grandkids, they have a little different twist of the same old same old thing. Nothing has changed, in fact if you look at things you can say that almost everything is the same. Just different.

Technology is poisoning our kids minds, they have got too interactive with it. They need us to show them that it is more fun just to do things instead of observing others do them. But for some reason, the young wait too long to see that they should have listened, then some of the things need to be rediscovered that they could have known all along. They do not teach kids in school about these things, in fact they make it seem that knowledge that will never be used is more important than the knowledge of how to grow food or do your own stuff. Our grandchildren, just like we were, are being conditioned by society to support society and not to be a family. A family that shares necessary knowledge.