Remember when you were young, and you used to listen to everything your mother told you. The days when you listened to every little piece of advice, and every word she said was Gospel. When did we stop doing that? For example:
As a child we were told: "Never speak to strangers."
As an adult: We have conversations in the street with people we've never seen before in our lives.
As a child we were told: "Never take sweets from strangers."
As an adult: We'll take any sample food on offer just because it's there, and it's free.
As a child we're told: "Never play with fire."
As an adult: We'll find any excuse to light the barbecue.
As a child we're told: "Respect your elders."
As an adult: Once you get to a certain age, you don't show any respect for anyone.
These are just some examples, of the good advice we ignore as we get older. Is it that we now think we know better? Or is it because nothing bad happened to us as children, and now we just assume that it never will.
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