Quote Originally Posted by Its a Plant
Any other adult saying that would have been fine.

BUT some people, knowing you and your feeling of superiority over the younger generations, might take it as an attack.
But you see, I don't feel "superior" over the younger generations. That's just the way you misinterpret the things I say.

What I have that you don't have is many, many years of experiences and lessons learned. Are you so superior to me that you actually believe you have learned those lessons without going through all the years of experiences?

I was once a teenager myself, and just like you, I once believed that I knew everything the adults knew. In fact, I believed I knew more than the adults, because if they were incapable of recognizing my obvious wisdom then they had to be fools.

But like all teenagers, as I lived some more, and grew, and learned, I came to realize that the fool had been me.