Prosposing a new term for "Senior" and ""Elderly" (conversation, friend)

[Bette]

Senior citizen at 50? Some still have kids in elementary.

Twilighters is pretty cool.

[Summering]

Originally Posted by Escort Rider

Wise? What a bunch of baloney! Not everybody acquires wisdom along with the passing of the years. I find the suggestion self-congratulatory and euphemistic. There are way too many euphemisms as it is in this age of political correctness.

I don't see how one wouldn't acquire wisdom along the way. It seems I learn something new all the time, and as the years flow...they add up.

I'm not congratulating myself in any way as I think it is a "given" to be learning during ones lifetime.
You don't stop learning when you leave school, learning is a lifetime process.

For an example:
I think of a young person talking who hasn't been in a flood, or doesn't know the power of a river before a large storm arrives. I wonder if they knew of the flood in PA that took a bunch of unexpecting campers to their graves. That the boat they just took out will not function with the power of the current and residue coming down from above. All lessons they have not learned in a book, but are learned overtime.

Time as it progresses along, brings wisdom. Just in the lessons we learn as the years roll along.

[Escort Rider]

Originally Posted by Summering

I don't see how one wouldn't acquire wisdom along the way. It seems I learn something new all the time, and as the years flow...they add up.

I'm not congratulating myself in any way as I think it is a "given" to be learning during ones lifetime.
You don't stop learning when you leave school, learning is a lifetime process.

For an example:
I think of a young person talking who hasn't been in a flood, or doesn't know the power of a river before a large storm arrives. I wonder if they knew of the flood in PA that took a bunch of unexpecting campers to their graves. That the boat they just took out will not function with the power of the current and residue coming down from above. All lessons they have not learned in a book, but are learned overtime.

Time as it progresses along, brings wisdom. Just in the lessons we learn as the years roll along.

I have no doubt about your personal acquisition of wisdom, but I am questioning the inevitability of that process because I have seen way too many old fools. Some people aquire wisdom with age and some do not. That is just the way things are. It would be self-congratulatory for us, as a group, to want to call ourselves "wise ones". Let that be earned on an individual basis.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Escort Rider

I have no doubt about your personal acquisition of wisdom, but I am questioning the inevitability of that process because I have seen way too many old fools. Some people aquire wisdom with age and some do not. That is just the way things are. It would be self-congratulatory for us, as a group, to want to call ourselves "wise ones". Let that be earned on an individual basis.

Quite so. I can't begin to tll you how many dumb old crooks and way over the hill degenerates, dealers and dopers I arested back in the day. Age does not necessarily equate to wisdom.

I mean, if it did I'd be on the fast track to brilliant.

[Umbria]

Originally Posted by Bette

Senior citizen at 50? Some still have kids in elementary.

Twilighters is pretty cool.

Perfect! I've just adopted this one - sounds current and mysterious

[biscuitmom]

Originally Posted by Bette

Twilighters is pretty cool.

"Twilighters" is often used to refer to those who are fans of the Twilight books and movies, so it doesn't work for me.

I've actually read all the books and seen all but the last of the movies so have some basis to disavow them.

[Summering]

Originally Posted by Escort Rider

I have no doubt about your personal acquisition of wisdom, but I am questioning the inevitability of that process because I have seen way too many old fools. Some people aquire wisdom with age and some do not. That is just the way things are. It would be self-congratulatory for us, as a group, to want to call ourselves "wise ones". Let that be earned on an individual basis.

Your right as it is never good to group people into one word, like "wise."

I'm still holdin' ground as to calling my older friends "charming." Some more charming then others.
Most, charm me in some way. I'd rather say " my charming friends," then " my old friends."

[LittleDolphin]

Did you ever hear that some young whipper-snappers call we exalted wise personages "Q-Tips" because so many of us sport white, cottony hair on one end?

Can't get no respect--R. Dangerfield

[Caladium]

Don't call me Jurassic...
I'm what you'd call a classic!

[Caladium]

I'm a cute little geezer who drives a Prius....
Does that mean the proper term for me is Prius-toric?