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Idiom: Fall on deaf ears
Have you ever suggested someone only to have it fall on deaf ears?
You can get a lot of satisfaction from a situation like this when you say I told you so in the end.
Of course, if you’re reading my blog, you are not a smug or evil person.
Therefore you would never say that.
You may think it, but you’d never say it.
To be clear, when you give a piece of advice or warning that falls on deaf ears, no one listens to you or takes it to heart.
Now, it’s true some people have to learn the hard way.
Wisdom does come at a price, and that price is time and experience.
It’s just so hard to watch someone go through the school of hard knocks.
If only they’d listen to you for a minute, you could save them much pain and suffering.
Unfortunately, that’s just the way it goes for most of us.
It’s part of the maturation process.
Especially when we’re young, we think we know it all and don’t need to take advice from anyone.
Come to think of it, though, when I try to advise older people, my good advice often falls on deaf ears.
Why does that happen?
Well, I have a theory about that.
Life is spent building up knowledge, and by the time we retire, the problem is that most of the learning we’ve acquired has become slightly out of date.
It needs to be updated.
Life is a circle, so we spend our youth allowing good advice to fall on deaf ears, and then when we’re older and should know better, the cycle repeats.
It’s probably why many older people remortgage their houses to take their dream vacation or purchase that luxury sports car they always wanted but no longer have the reaction times to drive properly.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
