the elderly [Theme]
But love won’t come, it won’t come!
When we are young, we think that old people know what they are doing. They don't know anything. Hardly anyone knows. It’s unlikely that anyone has any doubts about this.
Alexander Ya.
- Only love that they have no one to give.
The young scold - they amuse themselves, and the old men scold - they rage.
Quote Explanation: In Rus', a wedding was played once before and families were created for life. The girl left her father's house and could no longer return there. She humbled herself and endured her husband so as not to be expelled from his house. There were quarrels, but they should not go beyond the bedroom of the spouses. Husband and wife reconciled and lived on. If in youth healthy relationships were laid, then in old age they will be manifested by mutual patience and respect. Conversely, an unreasonable attitude towards others and life in general leads to madness in old age.
People used to believe that the soul of the dead could be caught in a mirror, like a trap. That is why many of the old people here are still in a hurry to curtain all the mirrors when someone dies in the house, and the clock is stopped to give the dead person the opportunity to get to heaven before the devil knows about his death.
Old people are like little children: what they are told, they will believe.
Old people, who know best how true this is, prefer to talk about their victories rather than their weaknesses. They do not want to seem ridiculous, but these are just the swings of the pendulum of eternal fate.
We must fight the evil in our heart. The most common evil that visits us is irritation. In everyday life, everyone annoys us: from pigeons that shit on the windowsill, to the closest people - relatives. And we are especially annoyed by old people (because they grumble, grumble, hear badly, are stubborn) and small children (because they need to be repeated a hundred times so that they remember something, learn something, but they still do not obey the first time). We certainly won’t succeed in not getting annoyed at all; for this, the grace of God must already settle in the soul. But not to show our irritation, to restrain it, to extinguish it with prayer - this is in our power, if you want. And we must do this because God wants people not to be irritated with each other, but to love.
The demon puts stockings on a naked girl.
Quote Explanation: Translation: V. Levik.
For many decades, I sincerely sympathized with those who complained that they felt like a deep old man, but only now I realized that everyone can feel like an old man. To do this, it is enough to become a teacher.
We care more about life as it loses its value; the old regret it more than the young.
When young people grow up, they shine so brightly that we old people no longer notice it.
Only the house where there are old people preparing "there", and small children who have recently come "here" - there is a truly full, living house.
I don't know if anything has changed for the better. I think everything has remained the same. The wheel is spinning. Young people work, old people survive, then, in the end, they die, and new ones come in their place. All the same swotting. I've read a lot of biographies, from Monty Cliff to Errol Flynn, and it's the same shit everywhere. No matter how incredibly talented you are, after a while, neither power, nor money, nor fame will fill the void that comes along the way.
