We Begin at the Beginning...

I have a lot to say.  In the 31 years I have been around I have accumulated a wealth of useless knowledge, knowledge that I have been passing on to my three beautiful and helpless girls.  I feel for them.  I used to wonder why older people always seemed to go around telling anybody who would listen to them, any and everything they had ever learnder about life.  Why did they think anybody wanted to hear their long-winded explanations of the meanings of life and why things were the way they were?  The funny thing is not that they think anybody wants to hear what they think, it's that if anybody actually listened to the older cats who have been around the block a few times, maybe this never-ending cycle of the young learning the hard way, getting older and becoming those same older cats with the same stories might one day end.  I was a young know-it-all just as my girls are and just as their children will be.  is that the way of the world, the meaning of life?  Are we meant to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again because of being stubborn?  I don't have all the answers, maybe not even very many but, if there is somebody out there listening...I have a lot to say.