I hate talking to old ppl, well most of em.

Old ppl are supposed to be wise and experienced and stuff. When they tok, words of gold come out of their mouth. Each story they say contains valuable lessons of life. Passing on their knowledge to the next generation.

But some old ppl, they think cos they lived for so long, and have seen it all, done it all, thinks that.... how should i say it, i cant think of a word or phrase to describe what i wan to say, but i'll try by using examples.

They think what they know is absolute. They disregard wadeva others say. They accept no new concepts/ideas.

They think cos they believed/think wadeva XXX for their whole life, it has gotta be true/still the same. Den if u tell them that either its wrong or it has changed or wadeva as long as u dun agree with the old dude, they wun process it.

Its like they dun even disagree. They jus brush it off and continue with their own story. U tell them something new, which makes wadeva he wanted to say irrelevant, but he will still continue his original story that he had in mind. Its nt even wad he wants to say, its a fixed story to say whenever certain "keywords" appear.

Conversations with such old ppl, is not considered communication. Its a monologue. Its not even conversation, they are jus looking for keywords in our speech, which they have stories they can tok about.

So like if u are in taxi, den the old cabby ask if u are doing NS. Starting he ask u wad unit u in, wad vocation, wad rank. At first u think its a conversation, hes jus looking for u to say the keywords thats in his database.

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Old man: So u in XYZ unit ah?

Me: ya.

Old man: wah there xiong! Last time i also there.

Me: Now nt so bad liao, nowadays blah-blah-blah...... So no xiong anymore liao.

Old man: Ya lor, u all have it hard ah, so xiong that place.

Me: No la, like i said now its nt so bad liao. blah-blah-blah-blah

Old man: I also there before, wah XXXX the YYYYY, ZZZZZZ, tough hor?

Me: *plugs my earpiece in my left ear* ......... Ya its very xiong.

Old man: *continues his story about xiong XYZ unit.

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Wads worst is they keep goin on and on and on and on. Not say 1 story to another, they replay the same story ova n ova again.

I find it common in many old ppl.

Could it be some mental decay problem old ppl face? Some disease? 老人痴呆？ H3N1?

I hope im not like that unknowingly, or become liddat in the future.

But of course gt some they can engage in real conversation, which is wad i enjoy. I can actually ask them questions and they answer me. Learn frm them. Instead of telling me that the Earth is actually flat.