Elderly People

Hi everyone!

here come a topic that really concerns me! People get chocked when they here me saying that I do not like old people (some exceptions to this sentence however). Why?

I would ask the question the other way round: why do we HAVE TO love elderly people?
They are the memory of our family/country/you name it but what kind of memory! A very selective one, as we all have, and most of the time restricted to 1 or 2 moments in life.

When their capacity reduces, they always keep on thinking they can stay home and be independent! How is it possible to be so far from reality? Aren't elderly people supposed to be wiser? yeah, tell me about it!

What I rather prefer to stress out are every day moments like we all have seen, i.e.:

- most elderly people are already retired and have time to do whatever they want, whenever they want (according to their capacity), so why do they keep on going to the supermarket when most people can? do they really like queuing?

About queuing, if they go shopping when the others also go, why do they want to make younger people to wait or to give them their turn? Aren't they there to queue? And if they go on the same time as the others not to feel so alone, then shouldn't they just wait for their turn?

I love when they say that younger people have a hudge lack of respect towards them! That "it was better before and now the society is perverse!" is just one of my favourite sentences. But why do I only hear "dirty compliments" from people that do not have their own teeth anymore?

And why, when they bump us on the stress, they never apologize? why don't they great you first when they see you somewhere? and why do they almost never answer back when you are being polite? However if you don't say anything you will be defined as Rude!

And my favourite one, why do they allways think they have the right to judge or give their opinion about everyone's lives even though they almost do not know them? and give their advise about something they do not even remember?

I must be subjective on this case, but the real question is: why should I pretend I like them when it is not the case?