I often get ideas for posts and I get all riled up about them but I’m not near my laptop so I don’t write them. Then when I am ready to write, I can’t figure out what I was going to write. That’s about where I’ve been for awhile. In fact, my laptop has been no where near me. I haven’t even charged it since February. I pulled it out and of course, it was dead as a door nail (door nail, just what is that). Now it’s charged and I wanted to write this post that I have been thinking of but I don’t remember exactly what else I was going to write on the subject, which I sort of began on Mother’s Day.
The idea is that I often feel (and know others do too) like I’m no longer useful because I’m now old. It seems to be that no one wants to hear what I have to say. It doesn’t matter that I have experience in what I’m saying. For example, in groups of young mothers, what I have to say has no merit because I don’t currently have little ones. It doesn’t matter that I have had them or that I have gone through what they are going though. They just don’t seem to be interested in what anyone older than their age has to say.
I often get that when I read certain blogs and leave comments. I might leave a long and detailed comment that is right on target with what is being discussed in the blog post and the comment thread but no one even acknowledges it because I’m old and what I have to say has no bearing, if they even read it!
It’s frustrating. It’s aggravating. It’s also depressing.
There’s more to say on the subject. I’ll probably come back to it.
How about you? Have you been in a situation where, instead of being appreciated for imparting certain information from your own experience, you’re ignored because you’re in a different group (age, gender, economic, educational, etc.)? How does it feel?
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
People do discrimnate for all types of reasons, and ageism is alive and well. Sorry that you are being hit by it.
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Well, you aren’t crazy. Our society is fast losing all respect for age and experience. I blame it in part on technology. Everything is instant. If you didn’t do it recently it is old news, of no account. Finding myself up against it in the job market. Thank you Jesus, I raised mine to know better!
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There sometimes is a gap but I try to keep current and not offer advice that I know will be thought of as dated and of no consequence. I usually sit back and just listen, thinking to myself that the person will see in 20 years that they didn’t know it all. Someone asked me once if I felt old being in the company of 20 and 30 year olds at work, and I told her not old, just wiser. Maybe think of yourself that way !
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I’m quite a bit older than you, and they’re still people I find who have common interests, and with whom I enjoy conversation. Sometimes the way we feel inside influences our ability to relate to some people… but this problem too, comes and goes. Your blogs are often very interesting and it’s a pleasure reading your blog. It may be that your health problems have gotten you down. Wishing you strength and a speedy recovery.
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