▶ Your Answer : It is controversial whether acquiring answer from older people or peers. In this regard, I believe that advantage of asking an advice from older people outweighs the advantage of asking an advice from peers or friends. It enables me to get their diverse experience and to get a creative solution from eldery's human network.
To begin with, older people have a lot of experience as they have lived longer than me. So, I believe that they have experienced what I haven't seen and what I wwould see. In other words, they can give me broad lessons from their lives. For example, I usually go to my mother for advice. Even if she has lived different era from me, as she has wide perspective of life, she normally gives me right anwers whenever I ask something about my life. Once, I asked her about my girlfriend. Because I wondered how to get along with her. And she gave me a lot of advices and I am still getting along with her. Therefore, I think prefer to look for solution from older people when I have troubles.
Moreover, obtaining a wise from older people makes me not only absorb their wise but also get a creative solution. To be specific, ordinary, older people have wider human-networks surely as they have lived a lot and met various kinds of people, in a business way or not, and then had chance to get along with people. So if I ask older people about what I have to do, even though they don't have knowledge in certain field, they will kindly ask my question to other people who are experts in that field and reply me. For example, when I asked my mother whether I have to attend school's transfer program, even though she didn't have knowledge about that, she asked it to other people who have experienced transfer program or lived in foreign country and said me to do it. I was afraid of leaving my country, but I believed my mother and I am waiting to go abroad now. I think I will learn so many things. if it haven't been for my mother, I would never decide to attend that program.
To sum up, I strongly argue that It is better to acquire advices from older people for the following reasons: I can attain a better experience and I can get an idea that I haven't thougt about. |