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Do you have more empathy with your parents' viewpoint as you get older?

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Appalonia · 04/01/2023 19:27

I'm 58 and I think I do. The world of young people is so alien to me now, mainly because of the internet/ social media. It's such a massive change from the way we grew up in the 70s/80a and sometimes I find myself exasperated, bewildered and sometimes wanting to go back to a more familiar past.

I know I used to feel frustrated with my own parents, who were children during WWII, again, a completely different world from mine, my mum used to accuse me of being wasteful, and seemed sometimes resentful of the opportunities I had compared to her. They didn't get pop music, and hated how I dressed, or the fact that I dyed my hair. But now I'm older, I get it! A sense of unease, of feeling irrelevant, and that the world is moving in a way that you feel alarmed by.

Anyone else feel like this?

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