Old people ....
Have you noticed, a new born baby will be ‘coo’ed’ over, and most will say ‘awww how sweet!’ you know, and rightly so in most cases, although no one will ever say ‘OMG where does jnr get that ugly mug from?!’ no one will pull a shocked face at a new baby.
No one will want to upset the new mummy, and rightly so, new borns are perfect in its own mothers eyes, she will see no fault, her child is perfect, even with ginger hair! Right from the start a mother’s instinct is to protect her baby, child, teenager, adult, that feeling of ‘you will die for your child’ never fades, and it will not until the day you die, that’s a fact.
We love the fact that others revel in the beauty of our child!
Her child can do no wrong as a toddler either, she will not bite, she will be just ‘mischievous’, but if she is bitten, that horrible child needs to be taught a lesson! You know what I mean.
If your child ‘catches’ something. Any run of the mill child hood illness, you blame the other for not staying away, not thinking that really your child needs to catch it and be immune, so as not to be a risk when she becomes a parent. Illness that you have no control over, that risk your childs life, a mother blames herself, no one else.
No matter how perfect you think your child is, you will see no bad.
You may be wondering why I am saying all this, not that I am assessing myself, I needed to point out how we behave towards babies really, because, this morning on TV an 80 year old Granny, was on because she still abseils down high rise buildings etc, a feat in itself let alone a lady of that age, the two interviewers seemed to be talking to her like a new born baby, in that ’high pitched’ voice, I have to say she really was the sweet little granny type we all see in our child hood books, sitting in a rocking chair with glasses at the end of her little snub nose, small and cute, the two were talking in the high pitched ‘aww’ voice that we do with new babies lol … even when she was listing what she had done throughout her life! aww
What age do people start talking to mature people like that? I changed the ‘old’ to ‘mature’ just in case I get loads of emails saying I am ageist! LoL yes I have been accused of that before! Another subject, so I am not going there!
And is the ‘high’ pitched googoo voice only for certain mature people, ie: because they fill that image we have of sweet and innocent older people? Babies have no past, mature people do, how do they become sweet and innocent, if they have not been very good in the past?
I know I do not talk to my father in that voice, and he is getting close to that age of 80, he will probably kill me now for outing him hahahaah this may be the last blog I ever do, pheww did I hear someone say? :O in my own defence he must have been really mature when he had me LOL
Anyhoo I have a theory on this that may make sense to some …
If the age between a baby, and an mature person is say up to 2 for the baby and then starts at 70 for the mature person, where we talk in that ‘high pitched’ voice, what are we in between?
Really does that mean that all of us in between them ages are not worth a toss? That we do not look angelic anymore? Or are sweet but not innocent?
People just waiting in the wings to put you down, and do bad things themselves, why do some people just see bad in others? Nothing good? Is it because they themselves were not that ‘cute’ baby, they have seen photo’s of themselves, and now know that people were lying to their mother when they said ‘how cute’!! hehehe is this why?
Or are they just ignorant of others? I myself do sometimes get accused of ‘ranting’ a bit, if I did not have this blog, I would have all that ranting building up in me .. So this is a good place to release, even though I am jesting!! Its just that some do not ‘get my sense of humour, that is because YOU DO NOT KNOW ME! Tsk
This is why I have to put the odd ‘lol’ and ‘hehe or hahah’ in there or no one would know I was messing about.
That is because written words can be misconstrued. Or Is this because I am in between the two mentioned?
Besides that, the thing here is, my theory, is that now I understand why people do not want to get old, because they must know deep down somewhere, that as soon as people start talking to them in the high pitched baby voice, they will absolutely know they ARE OLD and considered past it by others, even if in their heads they feel young, regardless of the age, aches and pains if they are unlucky, you never know when you yourself are soo mature to be talked to like that.
And!! Am I the only one that realises this? If someone starts to talk to me in that ‘high pitched’ voice, I now know my days are numbered!!
But, When are we now ‘middle age’ even?? Another question lol
Laters Tatty xx
*rolleye* generated.
