by mairead » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:14 pm
Hi Frank,
I'm afraid it takes more than a 'know it all' youngster to upset me. :).
Funny how the young seem to think they know more than we who have been around so much longer, seen so much more and done so much more.
They think we were born this age, but we know better, and believe me they will find out in time that youth is not immortality.
I excuse them a lot, because I know what is it to be young, whereas they have no idea what it is to be elderly, but as I read many years ago on an old tombstone,
"Remember this as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, one day you'll be, prepare ye then to follow me".
I fear not hell, nor English strife,
For Scotland, I will give my life