One of the things history has taught us is that in order to repeat the mistakes of the past, we must study history and not make the do the same thing twice. While we have archives of the mistakes we have made, the way that sticks with us is taking account of personal experiences. We derive these from our elderly.

With age comes knowledge. While this generation of writers has armed themselves with book knowledge, they lack something the older writers have, experience.

While it is important to learn from a literary piece, we should examine where this piece came from. While our country went through growing pains, I amsure it was the elderly who kept these documents we now call history. Experience is something you live through, learn about the hard way, take to heart, and make it a part of who you are, and pass on from generation to generation.

the same still hold true for todays "historian". Most true writers begin at a young age, but get busy with life, and set aside their pens for diapers or a career, but they never forget their first love. They learn to memorize things in a way, when they finally get the time to share it, is more than just an article, its an experience that can be not only read, but seen through the minds eye, felt through the heart, and remembered so that they too can pass on some of the wisdom they learned through their life in becoming an older writer.

The older the writer, the more we have to learn from them.

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