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Jessamyn West

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are

Jessamyn West

Communication

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Middle-aged people often fail to remember what it was like to be young, which makes it hard for them to understand the younger generation. At the same time, young people don’t fully recognize that middle-aged individuals have their own experiences and perspectives that shape how they communicate.

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