The Problem with Generations

The biggest problem is the common stereotypes, concerning this problem. I recently have read an article about intergenerational problems and the stereotypes that are followed because of this problem. I tried to divide it into a few sections, so that i could find the root of this problem, too bad, but it all comes to the same spot, its the common, public stereotypes we face every day. It's not cool, the elders do not know anything about anything and so on. But the problem is that, the elderly, your parents, grandparents do have a lot of experience that can be very useful in many ways. They have lived through many difficulties in their lives, economic, health concerning problems or emotional dramas, they saw it all. So just by saying that they know nothing is just ignorant and immature. I have my personal opinion that everyone can tell you, or teach you something interesting and useful by sharing their life long experience. I've got a perfect example, when I was going to Kėdainiai by train, I met a man, he was 60 years old or more, I myself was about 15 years old. So we started talking about random events that happened in our lives, then the conversation suddenly turned towards history. I never was very good at it, but I did know a few interesting facts about certain periods of time. So we started to exchange experience, stories and information. So after this interesting and totaly random conversation I did find out a lot of interesting facts about the city of Vilnius during the Soviet occupation and so on. Even if I never was very interested in it, it was very pleasant to chat with, and even after all most 4 years have past, we still keep in contact. So he is now all most 70 if I'm not mistaken, and I'm just 19. I do not tend to follow the public stereotypes, that's why I have such an interesting person, a friend that I can talk to. So this story just shows that this problem is just something the people made because of being left overboard by the people who do follow this stereotype. So I think everyone of us should break these fences we built, and just do what we like, there is no such thing as age boundries between friends. So just think about it, what will you lose, and what will you gain from the stereotypes you follow.

P.S. Here is the link to the article. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5002559541