We have heard many persons saying “When I was at your age I handled the situation this way, did things that way blab blab blab” to you at situations where we are slightly week or when you have taken a wrong decision.
Take once again the case with the game of Golf. There are two golf players in the field readily waiting to take a challenge to hit the hole.
The first player is a young, dynamic charming and highly energetic player. Of course he is talented and has quite a good experience in golf.
The second player had been spoken by the public as a well experienced and challenging player and had won many medals and awards by his competent play.
When asked about him the young player replied “Of course he is a best player but now he has become too old, so his capability would have been reduced so the chances of winning is easy for me.”
They started the play at a nice and beautiful morning light. The first strike was given to the young. The strike was hard and sharp but the angle was not so good but was able to travel a good distance. The old commented his shot as “when I was at your age nobody imagined a strike which was so powerful and the angle taken by my shot could not be beaten at any cost.”
The young hearing his comment could not control himself and wanted to prove to him who he was” so he started to hit without any idea or concentration. Every time he hit the old again started his story “When I was at your age blab blab blab.” His full thinking was about the comments the old had made to him which disturbed him very much.
The young had a thought in his mind that the time as come for him to prove. He made a huge hit which every body thought it would reach the goal but it went strike a very big tree which was near the goal post.
Again the old started “When I was at your age I used to hit such that the ball would cross the tree and hit the goal. The young got anger and tried to make an altitude of standby. Every one was tensed whether he could do it not. Oops it hit the bark of tree and striked back behind him. The old replied “when I was at your age the tree was just 2 feet and so small”.
Now the young were able to understand that “There are many things that have changed over time. Many factors have changed. Many rules have changed. The culture has changed. The atmosphere was changed and many more but what was not changed is Hard work, discipline, dignity, competency and many many on the list
If you are young understand it and if you are old do tell this story to your kids and young and I hope that you wouldn’t start with when I was at your age.
