Listening to the stories of our elder relatives

My grandfather loves to talk and he always loves to do it while I am in the middle of something, lol! I have been trying to make notes lately so I remember and I want to start recording him.

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, Now-a-days we are the oldest, but hardly anyone has time to listen to us. Gone with the lapse of time, good old days, when we used to listen lot many stories, as this was only our pass time. Computer was only in imagination. TV ha dnot come, we will listen lot of stories from our grand-parents at bed time. If we take this mYlot as international Family, do we listen to elders. Not at all. We argue to find faults with elders. I always think argument must be after little thinking, what others say. May God bless You and have a great time.

I have to admit that I sometimes grew weary with my mother repeating the same stories over and over again. Now that I am beginning to retell my stories, I wish that I had taped my mother's stories and asked questions to get more background for some of them.

Great discussion. I do, sometimes, get a little bit bored- but only if i am not in the mood for it. My grandpa tells me a lot of stories from the past. If it's a story that he's told very many times, and im just not in the mood that day, I do get a little impaient waiting for the story to end- but mostly, I love hearing the stories. They're fun and interesting to hear. He's gone through a lot in his life and hearing these stories gives me a little bit more insight into why he is the person he is... and ways for me to solve problems in my life as well.

HI PeacefulWmn, Thank you very much for your comment, actually, when I am in early child-hoods days I was actually under my greate-grand mother, who used to have stories of fairies, the helping Angles, invisible persons who have helped persons in need. Those storeis were having its own loving impression on my child-hood imagination. Later when have developed interest in such stories, the same type of stories, I came across in Theosophy, which are more or less or same other words corresponds, with full of wisdome which is most usefull in our day to day life. So I like them most. Thank you very much. I love them

I love hearing stories from our "elders". I miss hearing them from my grandparents as well as my parents. Our elders are our ancestors. The things they pass down to us is sometimes priceless. They can tell you the mistakes they made and you can avoid making the same ones if you listen to what they are saying. They can be a wealth of information, maybe not now, but somewhere down the road. The stories never get old, but sometimes better. I hope my grandchildren enjoy mine. That gives me something to look forward to!

When I was a child, I just loved listening to the tales of yore from my grandparents and other elders of the family. Apart from getting a magical glimpse into a lost world and my imagination running riot, these tales served another vital purpose for me. after the partition of India in 1947, my family had been uprooted and forced to flee their ancestral homeland and settle down here in India…being born in India, I have never been to the land my people used to call home…the land of my forefathers. The elders were my only link to that land…their stories transporting me to places and times which I would never be able to visit or recreate

I love to listen. I may find sometimes it is boring. I think though though just want someone to listen half the time. Also You may learn something new.

Listening to our elders can be fun, amusing and educational. Sometimes they have some real good tales!

Hi Karen...unfortunately I was not one of the lucky ones who had grandparents still living when they were born so I never got to interact with them and be told about the good old days. My parents were both in their late 30's when I was born and had both came through the depression and the wars but It still wasn't the same as being told about the settler days and the covered wagons that some have been able to hear and learn about. I have always wanted to try and look up and see if I could find any of my family on the internet and one of these days when I have time to put into it I am just going to do that. flutterby

It is said that exprience is the best teacher.how can one achieve exprience naturally through failures. But i feel that i can have exprience without facing failures. How? through the exprience of the elders. I feel that life without elders in the family is just like having tea without sugar. I enjoy most the company of my mother, grandfather and hearing to them gives me immence satisfaction.

My grandparents use to tell us stories like that, and I was one that thought this is so boring. Now that I am a older I wish I could remember what they said. We was doing a family tree and I couldn't remember any of my great relative names.I now have a mother-in-law that tells this kind of stories. They are no longer boring, and as far as her repeating her stories, I kinda need her to do that because I forget. We need to pay attention,because you never know when it will come in handy.

Ya I like to listen from my mother the past things that happened before. If there is time we use to discuss and have a nice time.....

My mother used to tell us about her story during younger days whenever we have family gatherings. Initially it was very interesting but when she repeated it again and again, all of us felt very boring and annoyed but we would remain silent as a respect to her. Most of the old folks are the same, so just have to bear with them.

Yes I have to agree with you on that. I do enjoy listening to my "lola", my grandmother when i was a kid. She was always telling us stories about the old days...the days when we are still being occupied by the japanese. The stories are really shocking but it makes us realize how lucky we are that its all over and I do hope that there will not come a time in the future that wars like that will happen.

it gets old after a while. i enjoy modern stuff more and doing stuff the modern way. but it can be interesting to see how people back then used to do things in old fashion ways and compare how the times have changed and improved.

me, i love listening to the stories of my elder relatives! i love listening to the stories of my grandma on how my parents are doing when they are still young, or how the family is doing way way back! its quite interesting and exciting to me to know those things! hahaha specially when they are telling stories about their love life! hehehe...it don't get me bored coz somehow, i learn so many things from those stories! not only to mt relatives' stories...but as well as to my older friend's stories...i don't know just love listening to those things...and i enjoy seeing the old ones telling those stories with smile in their face...seems like they are enjoying reminiscing their past!

I love listening to conversation like these. Like my grandparents or people of his age generally have very interesting stories about their day to day life. It is a good way to understand the life in those times. I also like to listen to them because older peope need your attention and when you make them feel special they feel good. However, i would be more attentive if the stories were told in a facinating way - everyonne doesnot have the flair of storytelling! :)

have you tried comparing conversations between younger and the older people? isnt it true that the older people have that clean words for humouring his listeners while the younger ones seems to be so frank that they describe a situation in a manner sometimes offensive just to make it funny? well maybe its the generation gap thing again but honestly, i like talking to much older people. it is as if they can feel the sensitivity of the persons they talk to. well am not saying younger people are not sensitive because many are too. its a joy to talk with older people. they are not boring at all. ann

Hallo myLot friend, it is a fact that old stories from the wise old man were not only having wisdom, intelligent way of overcomming difficuties, solving prasent day to day problems, also shows right wasy for solving present day to day crysis. such stories containing practical wisedom in action, so every body young and old having some appeal, have facination, having its own hidden blessings, much interesting.