Seniors Need To Be A Public Nuisance If They Don’t Want To Be A Public Burden.

Attention all seniors. Thirty minutes a day is all you need. In the time it takes you to do your mall walking, you can make a significant contribution to the quality of life in your local community. Your voice, your experience, your gray-haired-wisdom needs to be heard and shared.

Recent media coverage warns of the growing burden of the aging Baby Boomers. This message continues to trickle down into the popular dialog as. small government advocates continue to spread the message that we can no longer afford the social safety net programs. More for military spending, less for people programs.

This “senior as burden” message will continue to infiltrate the popular dialog and will eventually become the message that pollutes all policies and programs that address the senior population. We have seen some direct evidence of this in the continuing saga called the community senior center.

This is why your voice, your experience, your wisdom should be shared and mixed into the community dialog. With thirty minutes a day, you can expand your influence by working with a local community watchdog group, write letters, comment on posts in groups (not just like), talk to your city council person, provide a different perspective on the issue of the day.

None of us make it through this world alone. We all owe our success to the people and institutions that stood tall ahead of us. We all stand on the shoulders of others’ experiences. It’s now your turn to pass it forward. The best we seniors can do is ask questions, speak truth, share experience, and mix in some wisdom. When we do this, some may call us a public nuisance but I like that better than a public burden. Don’t you?