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so i just googled , good conversation starters and this one came up as one of them (there was like 350) and i thought this would be a good thread starter
title says it all , what do you think people will ask you about life and the world when you reach like 80 , what stories do you think you will be able to offer later on in life?
I am old, and they don't. Children are completely indifferent, and think I am lying if I try to tell them about when there was no TV and children played outdoors with each other. And their attention span is too short to listen to anything other than a one-line anecdote about "when I was your age" and are unable to formulate any follow-up questions.
They are destined to reinvent all the wheels of wisdom.
What cebuan says. They are no more interested in hearing my stories than I cared to hear my parent's stories.
Actually, I thought my parents' stories were fascinating. They were born in 1900 and 1908, were married in 1931 at the height of the depression. I listened to them with rapt attention, and by proxy, I have over a century of memories.
so i just googled , good conversation starters and this one came up as one of them (there was like 350) and i thought this would be a good thread starter
Apparently, you think quick a few things are good thread starters. You've made 11 posts in the two weeks since you've joined City-Data, and all 11 have been to create new threads. Not only that, but the 11 threads are in 11 different forums. I'd ask you why you've done so, but that would no doubt be futile since you've never come back to post a comment in any of the 11 threads that you've created. Here are the other 10 "good thread starters" for those who may be interested:
I think in general that kids today are different and they don't care. When I was growing up I loved listening to stories of 'The olden days' from my parents and other family members. It was back when they had outhouses, had to haul water to the house and didn't have electricity in their homes. I could have sat and listened to those stories forever and a day. I have my grandmothers cast iron 'irons' that she used to iron their clothes.
I babysat for a friends grands a few years ago and told them when I was a kid we had one TV set, it was black and white and we only got 3 channels. I told them we had 8 track tapes and vinyl records instead of ipods. I told them we had no cell phones, we had phone booths. They pretty much couldn't comprehend this and they were only interested in their ipods and iphones. They couldn't even look away long to eat lunch. They were both under 10. I hear this from a lot of people about their grandchildren. I think kids today are just different.
I don't think there will be much interest until the "kids" are older and are fully able to comprehend some of the major changes we have seen in our life. My granddaughter, who is 9, saw an old wall phone in my aunt's garage and asked what it was. It wasn't THAT long ago that most of us had landlines. Today's young kids probably can't picture a world without cell phones or flat screen TV's.
I am old, and they don't. Children are completely indifferent, and think I am lying if I try to tell them about when there was no TV and children played outdoors with each other. And their attention span is too short to listen to anything other than a one-line anecdote about "when I was your age" and are unable to formulate any follow-up questions.
They are destined to reinvent all the wheels of wisdom.
Absolutely. Children, grandchildren, other relatives, friends-----no one wants to hear a bunch of old people telling stories. If you think your life is all that interesting and needs an audience, write your memoirs.
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