Quick Blog # 6

At school my life is more full of people of diverse ages. Home is more just me and my family. The oldest person in my immediate family is 54. Work is certainly not diverse because I work in the mailroom and all the people there are my age. I think my surpervisor is 28? I actually hang out with my a diverse age group. I am a pretty decent people person so I can talk to almost anyone about things. Younger people are sometimes hard for me to handle (teenagers) I have a nephew who is sixteen and he is nice to me when his friends are not around, is is when they are around for the most part, but his mouth just goes. I appreciate elderly people because I love their stories. I loved talking to my grandmother about the past and how she lived on a farm and had like 10 cows and they used to have to pick up after them....it's a good story. Young and middle-aged adults are privileged because they are generally past all the legal business (drivers license, being 21) and they are physically able to do for themselves. Older folks are viewed as incapable or in the way sometimes. Younger people still have that need to be taken care of aspect to them sometimes. To combat ageism I think we need to teach it. We need to have an experience where individuals can understand how it is to walk a mile in the shoes of an elderly person.