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You know how I miss, like, just in general, older people, like, they can give us perspective on stuff.

I feel like what happens in our country,

maybe even notice this, I don't know,

but they kind of take off in their own little retired villages

or whatever you call them.

We need them here.

Yeah, kind of isolate themselves,

like everybody else does it, not blaming them.

We love age stratified stuff,

but kind of miss them because they have perspective on

things and they can calm us down we can get worked up and then we work everybody else into being

worked up and think somebody who's been through a whole lot of stuff if you just are spending time

with them they just implicitly just by the way they, having been through things that you can't imagine,

are able to calm me down a little bit.

I see that on social media, people whip each other into a frenzy.

It's called a bandwagon effect.

Things matter for sure, but without perspective,

you're not sure, is this the end of the world or is it not?

And having somebody a little bit older with some wisdom can go, no, it's not.

But we still want to do this, we want to do that, but no, we've been through this before.

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