WHAT'S THERE TO TALK ABOUT?

It is interesting how our topics of converstaion change as we grow older. There is a quote from scripture that says, "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." (1 Corinthians 13:11 New American Standard Bible)

Then it is only normal that as we grow from childhood through adolescence, to adulthood that our topics of conversation change. When we were babies/toddlers, we spoke what we heard. We mimiced what we heard adults speak, at times not even knowing what we were talking about. This was a means of learning our language.

As school age children, we began to speak of those things that affected our lives....we wanted to share, to show off, to be heard. We talked about our friends, the teacher who didn't like us, what we were going to play after school, etc. We still mimiced our adults to an extend, but for the most part our choice of topics was our own.

As we were nearing our teens years and even once there, our topics of conversations WERE the only ones we wanted to hear. We often stopped creating topics to talk about with our parents or other adults. But we could find enough topics to share with our friends to last an entire day. We chatted about our friends, what so and so wore to school, how dreamy the boy in math class was. etc. Today, teen conversations are in the form of a text message, but the topics remain the same.

In our early adult years, we spoke of our jobs, our spouse, our children, of our plans to retire etc. Our conversations began to focus on the future as much as the present. We became aware that there was more to life than the present. We needed to move on in our lives and thus our topics of conversation.

As we approach or are in the senior years, our topics of conversation have changed radically. We discuss our grandchildren, the condition of the next generation, and mostly of our physical conditions. Put 2 or more seniors together and they will end up by talking about their surgeries, their medications, their doctors, their doctor appointments, who just died, etc.

I guess maybe at this age, others may think this morbid talk, but I guess over all the years of our existence, we maybe we have already discussed most of everything, so all that is left now is our medical concerns. It IS funny to hear seniors in conversation.......try listening to a group of seniors. It will make you glad you are young and everything still works!



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