I feel like people who haven’t grown up with grandparents don’t understand the value of seniors in our society. They are not just ‘old people’. From a non mate

I feel like people who haven’t grown up with grandparents don’t understand the value of seniors in our society. They are not just ‘old people’. From a non material perspective, life is rich when there are relationships and companionship and love. And we learn from our older generations and they are memory keepers. Society cannot learn and progress and evolve if we don’t treasure the elders amongst us. Sadly, this is lost in today’s world and especially in the west. Even in India where I grew up in a large multi generational family, the notion of multi generational families participating in child rearing is become rare with the current generations. We see the downsides of this. At least, I do. You can learn how to code or be a nuclear engineer at a college…but how do you learn what it takes to be in love and to be able to love? Learn cooperation and create partnerships..how to be kind and when to be kind. Or stern. We need elders. A society that doesn’t care for its most vulnerable is doomed to perish. That’s how we learn to be humans. And to be human is to learn how to cooperate and co exist in order to survive.