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The life in our years : Comments

By Shira Sebban, published 5/2/2013

40 is when we attain understanding, 50 when we can offer advice, and 60 when we finally reach seniority.

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Shira,

at fifty-nine I finally gained the understanding that I really never knew much about any particular thing and that I knew nothing at all about most everything, except that I am 95% sexual and that sex and love are separate things, and I finally understood why I never gave anybody any advice.

I see you are a beautiful young mum.
Posted by imajulianutter, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 7:59:55 AM
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Oh dear Shira you really have made my day.

I googled your 'Ethics of Our Fathers'.

I perused parts of it until I came to this specactular piece of advice

'5. Yosi ben Yochanan of Jerusalem said: Let your house be wide open and let the poor be members of thy household; and do not talk much with women. This was said about one's own wife; how much more so about the wife of one's neighbor. Therefore the sages have said: He who talks too much with women brings evil upon himself and neglects the study of the Torah and will in the end inherit Gehenna.'

Seems Gehenna beckons to all us western liberal democrats.
Posted by imajulianutter, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 8:11:08 AM
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It is one of life's universal myths, that it is the responsibility of the older to impart the wisdom afforded to them by their years, to the younger.

And the reasons given are always the same...

"...by the time we reach 50, we're meant to be wise and experienced, with plenty of knowledge to impart to others."

I don't know about you, but my own experience is that when I was young, I took absolutely no notice of any advice given to me by anyone older. They simply did not understand, being completely, well... old, in their approach to life.

More than that... wouldn't it be appalling, if every generation accepted the advice of their forbears, never making the mistakes that they made, forever stepping in their tried-and-tested, sanitized footsteps? I cannot think of anything more dreadful for them.

Beyond setting an example of ethical dealing and fair play, maturity brings no responsibility for providing the youngsters with "good" advice.
Posted by Pericles, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:09:18 AM
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The number of years is irrelevant... and having wisdom, experience and knowledge to 'impart to others' is very easy.

Having it recognised and accepted is the really difficult bit, regardless of the age of the intended recipient.

But life can be full of surprises... only the other day I recaptured my youth.

Still don't know how he escaped.
Posted by WmTrevor, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 10:36:50 AM
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I have discovered exactly one (1) good thing about getting old:
now I have an excuse for being absent minded and forgetful.
Posted by Grim, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 1:19:05 PM
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Wm,
'But life can be full of surprises... only the other day I recaptured my youth.'
I keep recapturing mine but after a few months the bloody shelias are too quick for me, are too fleet-footed and keep escaping.
Posted by imajulianutter, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 2:12:29 PM
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