Elders; the person to share experience with wisdom

Everyone comes to this world with zero knowledge and, with time, starts to grow and acquire knowledge. After passing several life stages, people grow old. It’s the law of life, and no one can escape from it. It doesn’t matter how powerful a person one is, he needs to face the same consequences even if he doesn’t want to. It can be called fate, or it can be the destiny of each human being.

Life is not a flat road, and, on the way, humans need to struggle and face many difficulties. Everything that happens in life comes with some lessons. Sometimes humans can understand it and learn from it, and sometimes not. Those things enrich the knowledge and wisdom of humans, which is known as experience, and experience is the most precious thing in life.

It’s not true all the time, but for the maximum time, experience of humans increases with time, and it means that the more aged a person is, the more experience one person acquires. And in family, grandparents are the most experienced person. In their old age, they start to lose their physical ability and get weak, but their wisdom and experience enlighten other family members on the way of life.

Once I heard one sentence, and I can remember the sentence clearly, although I don’t know who said it first. The sentence was, "Indeed, you are living in a digital world, and you can find many things in Google by searching, but you should spend some quality time with elders because everything you don’t find in Google." This sentence shares a powerful message that Google information can’t help us in every stage of our life, but the advice and shared knowledge of elders are powerful enough to help us in every stage of our life.

I haven’t seen my grandfather anytime, as he died before I arrived in this world, but my grandmother is still alive, and she is almost about to make a century. To be honest, in my childhood, I never had any good moments with her, as she had partiality among her grandchildren. I faced a lot of trouble for her such kind of behavior. I think she understood her mistakes later, but it was too late to understand as I had already grown up at that time, and I hope you know after growing up, making a bond with someone whom I was supposed to be my enemy in childhood was difficult. I never had any intention to take revenge, and I can’t erase the past, but I tried to be close to her as much as possible as I got the opportunity, and fortunately, I am one of her favorite grandchildren. Let’s keep those things aside, I also learned so many things from her, although it was late, but her experience was insightful for me all the time.

I saw her how to maintain balance in the family. In difficult times, she was strong and faced all the situations bravely. Her actions said that confidence is very important in every case and it’s hard to achieve something in life. I also understand that sometimes it is important to dominate everyone to establish peace in a family. Whenever my father or my uncle faced difficulties and didn’t find any solution, they went to my grandmother, and somehow she gave them at least one solution to their difficulties.

I think I missed many things because I was not so close to her since childhood, but I can understand that her role was very important in our family. At the current time, I don’t know if she has any important role to play because she is not in the state to play any more role except sharing her knowledge with us.