Hi there. I'm Diane Grissel and I'm also known as Silver Dispedience. And I want to wreck a little bit. Hi, I'm Diane Grissel and I'm also known take three. Hi, I'm Diane Grissel. Welcome to the Silver Dispedience Podcast. Today I want to talk about our authority figure. And what I mean by that is all day long at every stage of our lives, from basically from 2 years old when we start to learn the word no to each year we get older, we are making decisions.
And often at some point we start to let others impact those decisions for us. And I believe a big benefit of aging or each year we live our lives. And it's very important, you know that I believe these awarenesses can come at 10 years old, they can come at 15, they can come at 40 or 80. But I believe a big benefit of our years, which equate to aging, is that age and experience tend to make us our own authority figures.
You know, and ideally, we get to a stage in our lives when gone are the days when we're completely vested in what everybody thinks about our every action. Someday, hopefully, we become old and wise enough to decide for ourselves what's right and what and that what's not right in our lives. So we get to make those choices. And this is not to say we stop respecting the opinions of others, or that we don't respect those opinions.
Rather, it's more that maybe, you know, we can get to a point where we, we make the choice to become better at listening to those opinions of others and then pulling out what we think might be valid and then more comfortably deciding what's best for ourselves. You know, like this could even include, you know, I don't know how people talk about aging. You know, I know people of every age that are terrified of getting older. So let's talk about that a
minute because it's an example. And hey, I am older. I'm, you know, 63, so I'm a good example of an old person, you know, depending on who's making the judgment. And, you know, people talk about, oh, how older is how old people act. But with every stereotype, no matter what the stereotype is, we have to determine our own truth within the statement. Or might I even call it a judgment, because opinions are often perceived as judgments
from another person. You know, let's say I know I said, you know, a couple of times, so maybe I am getting a little forgetful, but this doesn't mean that forgetfulness is inevitable. Yes, we have crammed brains. They're thinking about all kinds of stuff all day long. So yeah, we do forget a few things.
But older doesn't mean we're all going to be retired or sitting in rocking chairs, though some of us may continue to rock and really like rock'n'roll, and others may have moved on to jazz or classical or something else we liked that we liked when we were younger or liked when we were older. There's no time and place for when we decide we like things or don't like things. These are all ways we let our personalities come out and shine.
Just like retirement. I know people who are retired at 40 and I know people that are 80 and will never retire. So all these things are individual choices. Age at any stage of our life at 17480 does not mean we're less productive. It doesn't mean we're technologically inferior. Impossible to teach, you know, it's we. We don't. We don't have to be set in our ways, or we have it assumed we're set in our ways. We always have the capacity to change. We can be always working out.
We can work out when we're younger, we can work out when we're older. Maybe the way we do it has to change a little, but we can still do it. So they're all different kinds of things. And at every stage when we talk about authority figures, this doesn't mean that we are unable to make decisions without a tribunal of family opinions and blah blah blah. That all go into how we're thinking about making choices.
And I think the reality is that each of us gets to individually define at every year of our life what our life that year is going to look like and how we're going to look back and reflect on it. And just as no two people are identical, our perspectives on how to live life at any age covers an equally vast spectrum. And I believe that each year we're picking up experience.
And those experiences that can happen at any and every stage are the very things that make us more comfortable with addressing the challenges of life, as well as looking at ourselves more closely and determining who is the real authority figure in our life, which is our moral compass. We each hold this moral compass, and we have to decide what our actions are and what how those actions will determine the life
we ultimately lead. So of course we're all going to look to other people for their opinions at times. But we also need to know in our hearts that once we decide to start opinion seeking, we've probably already made our decisions. And what we're really looking for is validation of our plans, which someone may or may not give us. You know, it's up to us to decide what's right and own it. That's the big part.
You can't turn around and say, well, I made this choice, but no, you have to own it. So silver disobedience can happen at any age. You could be 15, you could be 40, you could be 80. It's an attitude. It's a stage of taking and accepting utmost responsibility for our actions. When we no longer want others to make our decisions, when we start to make them ourselves, we need to own the responsibility for those choices. So today I'll ask you Are you your own authority figure?
I look forward to any comments you might have about that. I'm Diane Grissel. This is the Silver Disobedience Podcast. Please subscribe and come see me more often. Take care. Have a wonderful day.