Fifty years ago, we revered our elders.
We pulled up a chair.
We asked questions.
We listened to their stories.
Now many sit alone.
In nursing homes.
In a tech-driven world that has largely passed them by.
We don’t value them like we used to.
What if parents took the time to take their kids?
What if schools took the time to take their students?
Just to sit. Just to listen.
But because sitting with someone and hearing their story still matters.
Because they built the businesses.
They paved the roads.
They fought the wars.
They taught the people who taught us.
They raised families without convenience.
They endured things most of us have only read about.
And many of them are longing to tell those stories one more time.
To be seen.
To be heard.
To matter.
We say we want better culture.
Maybe it starts there.
Because maybe the best things in life
aren’t downloaded or streamed.
They’re shared.
Through stories.
Through lived experience.
And there are thousands of stories sitting in those rooms,
waiting for someone to pull up a chair.
If you cannot fly, then run. If you cannot run, then walk.
If you cannot walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I have been following Scott Burns since he wrote for the Dallas Morning News. His ideas make a lot of sense to me.
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