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From: steve@cires.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: ON AGE
Message-ID: <2090@cires.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 11:48:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 11:48:37 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 04:51:58 EDT
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In response to some of the blurbs in net.singles about age... especially
those ridiculous & insensitive comments about 'jail bait' & females between
ages 18-21.  Who are we to judge anyone by what age group someone falls in???
People who quantify & classify people as per 'age groups' are missing the
whole point!  Age does not a difference make.  What counts is how the other
acts & feels.  If you feel old - you're old.  If you're feelin' healthy &
energetic - then you're healthy, etc.  If you're looking back (or down on)
18-21 year-olds as "that age" where females are looking for "older men" &
fake i.d.'s - then you are NARROW-MINDED.  Give 'em a break, fer chrissakes!!!
Don't you remember when you were 19???

I will not lump people into categories of age, wealth, looks, cars, or
whatever.  Rather, it is much better (& you make alot more friends) to
simple appreciate people for WHO they are, i.e. "how they act".  If you
can avoid classifying ohter people into groups, then you will find that
*almost* everybody is a fine, decent, fun, exciting individual.  Only when
you can accept the other *as they are*, will you find that most of your
'group classifications' are bogus.  Most folks truly are individuals, hence
they fit into NO group.

It boils down to this:  Enjoy others for what they are... don't criticize them.
Besides, I gotta rationalize this:: I'm 31, my girlfriend is 21.
			-Stephen J. Smith
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