How to act as if youve got more insurance.


One way to tell you're getting older:

You feel morally superior to young people.

(This, of course, is not to be confused with the folk who feel morally superior to EVERYBODY. Them's different. They dont care how old you are, theyre better, wiser and prettier than everybody else. Dont tell them theyre none of the above. That just makes it worse.)

You stop giving young folk any credit for wisdom, sense or judgement.

Your words are given as judgements from upon high, advice and natch, criticism.

The irony of course, is that when youre older, you start getting an increasing feeling of envy.

Not that you'd want to be young again, no, god forbid. But you wouldnt mind having the energy, firmness and lack of grey hair. But you wont admit to that, nuh uh. You just dispense advice as if you know best.

Sometimes, we want to piss on their parade.

Sometimes, you even take advantage.

Cuz, you know, youre older.

So, to be cool, one has to learn how to fake the empathy. Yeah, you feel superior, but you have to not ACT superior.

Its not hard, really.

We just have to remember that our superiority complex is rooted in .. an inferiority complex.

So, smile, swallow the bile and play nice.

Cuz youre older, have more experience, more resources and do have more insurance.

We've had our chance to grow up.

Now it's their turn.

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