No 1491 of Living Life Series 1
When young adults, many who are now old and elderly told their children that children must not talk when adults talk. Children were to be seen but not heard. This was so that they could not interrupt the adults who have to work and have many activities after work.
When the adult parents become old, the children who have become young adults are too busy multitasking and they will find their elderly parents irritating and wasting their precious time. They will expect the elderly parents not to talk but just listen to what they have to say.
They will say that the elderly parents are not to talk to them, to listen when they the adult children are talking. They will loudly insist that they only want to be heard and not asking for the opinions of the elderly parents. They will tell their elderly parents to just listen and not talk back, to agree and not to give opinions. It will be rude to do so.
Elderly parents must keep silence, not talk when the adult children talk. It will be ill mannered and incorrect to talk or give opinions when the adult children are adults. The oldies should just listen and not talk back.
They do not ask for their views but the oldies should be thankful that the adult off springs could even spend some precious moments to tell them what are in their minds or what they do in the day. It seems that they are screaming that the oldies should wise up and not talk back but just listen, learn and appreciate.
Elderly parents must keep silence, not talk when the adult children talk. It will be ill mannered and incorrect to talk or give opinions when the adult children are adults. The oldies should just listen and not talk back.
They do not ask for their views but the oldies should be thankful that the adult off springs could even spend some precious moments to tell them what are in their minds or what they do in the day. It seems that they are screaming that the oldies should wise up and not talk back but just listen, learn and appreciate.
Ins't this payback time of sorts or perhaps role reversal? Elderly parents do reap what they sowed decades ago.
The adult children feel that they were brought up with wrong values and find the religious ways of the elderly parents irritating even if both parents and grown up children are of the same religion or church.
The adult children feel that they were brought up with wrong values and find the religious ways of the elderly parents irritating even if both parents and grown up children are of the same religion or church.
In a religious institution like a temple or church, the same that happens in family too happens and this comes as no surprise.
Previously the pioneers who were young adults decades ago would call the tune and the younger ones would just have to listen and do, and not to question why - not even giving opinions which would fall on death ears and be scorned.
This bred ill-feelings. When these young ones come come of age, they take over the temple or church or desert the temple or church to start bigger temples or churches.
They could even upstage what was done to them when they were young. They as adults end up sacking or eliminating the pioneers who had become elderly and not seeming to be in touch with the trend they prefer to have.
This is due to human nature. This is due to the thinking a person often has that he is right and others wrong even when he is not really right. This is the truth in life and this is due to the ego or 'I thoughts.'
There would be no end of problems and issues. This is what Bo Tien 武天 wants all to know that many families, religions and societies face the same outcome.
Bo Tien 武天 says that there is learning from life. There is the truth in life regardless of religion, culture or society. There is need to forgo the 'I thoughts' that a person himself is always right and others wrong.
If any individual could do that, that person will have inner peace, and smile at the problem causing attitude of the ego in many a man. It is never too late to realise this even when it is payback time. Better late than never.
Previously the pioneers who were young adults decades ago would call the tune and the younger ones would just have to listen and do, and not to question why - not even giving opinions which would fall on death ears and be scorned.
This bred ill-feelings. When these young ones come come of age, they take over the temple or church or desert the temple or church to start bigger temples or churches.
They could even upstage what was done to them when they were young. They as adults end up sacking or eliminating the pioneers who had become elderly and not seeming to be in touch with the trend they prefer to have.
This is due to human nature. This is due to the thinking a person often has that he is right and others wrong even when he is not really right. This is the truth in life and this is due to the ego or 'I thoughts.'
There would be no end of problems and issues. This is what Bo Tien 武天 wants all to know that many families, religions and societies face the same outcome.
Bo Tien 武天 says that there is learning from life. There is the truth in life regardless of religion, culture or society. There is need to forgo the 'I thoughts' that a person himself is always right and others wrong.
If any individual could do that, that person will have inner peace, and smile at the problem causing attitude of the ego in many a man. It is never too late to realise this even when it is payback time. Better late than never.
