Reena’s Xploration Challenge #431

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PROMPT #431

This week, we are taking a rather broad look at AGE-ING, and the relationship between generations.

Whether you see yourself as young, old or somewhere in between, examine your relationship with those on the other side and base your piece on that.

I give below an excerpt from The Marginalian by Maria Popova.

Harrison was startled to hear one of her young, talented colleagues at Trinity College proclaim that “no one over thirty is worth speaking to.” With her winking intelligence, she observed:

This is really very interesting and extraordinarily valuable. Here we have, not a reasoned conclusion, but a real live emotion, a good solid prejudice, a genuine attitude of gifted Youth to Crabbed Age. It is my business to understand and, if I can, learn from it. Give me an honest prejudice, and I am always ready to attend to it.

In a sentiment that ought to be the ultimate manifesto for intellectual and emotional humility, direly needed in our own time, she adds:

I am long past blame and praise, or, rather, I am not yet ready for them; there is so much still waiting to be understood.

There is no restriction on the length of the piece. There is no last date unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.

We will not include any posts that are found to be offensive, vulgar, or that hurt ordinary sensibilities. This needs to be a safe space.