<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Youth Always Wins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Generational change<br>wins always<br>because the old and middle-aged<br>develop a clouded lens<br>and can' t see Now<br>because focused on Yesterday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is good advice for Youth Now<br>consist of lessons learned yesterday, <br>when yesterday no longer exists? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can we tell the Young that yesterday<br>is relevant<br>when all yesterday is dead and gone? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can we council that the old views<br>and yesterday make sense <br>when conditions have so changed<br>have been rent, <br>mangled beyond<br>recognition? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young people<br>as they must<br>absorb much from us, <br>but their capacities<br>and needs are so much greater<br>than our meager philosophies present.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the first time in history<br>young people are smarter<br>than their elders who<br>barely know how a computer works.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First time in history the young<br>are wiser than the septuagenarians.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Generations are additive<br>and while all youth stands upon<br>our shoulders<br>it also means they can see further<br>than we<br>planted on the ground below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We see ground level and the past-<br>they see above the clouds to that future-ness; <br>and we complain<br>because we know in our Youth<br>we did <br>exactly<br>the same thing<br>against our parents<br>who always thought<br>they too, <br>knew best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448895" data-title="Youth Always Wins de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="Generational change wins always because the old and middle-aged develop a clouded lens and can' t see Now because focused on Yesterday. Is good advice for Youth Now consist of lessons learned yesterday, when yesterday no longer exists? Can we ..."></div> </div> </div>

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