I’ve noticed a pattern with my elder relatives that they continually make, what to me, are really weird and always negative assessments of me either at large or in a specific encounter with them.

My nephews on the other hand, as they get older, are slowly appearing to realize that Uncle Rich is more brilliant-authority-figure and less coocoo-bananas-clown than maybe they previously thought and it’s interesting to see them do the calculations and adjust their assessment internally based on their observations and everything but it  also highlights the contrast of how dense so many adults are. Why are these kids getting wise to my life-of-satire when the generations ahead of them are continually so unable to detect the should-be-obviousness to whats going on in front of them?

I’m inclined to blame this on a lack of thoughtfulness on the part of the person who consistently and repeatedly doesn’t understand the tone of other peoples behavior but it’s possible that age is a factor as well. People may just get jaded the older they get and learn by experience to take everything literally where as a younger person – free of the endless cynicism of life – is more receptive to jokes being inserted into every day interactions.

Whatever the case may be. No one but the innocence of a childs mind can know my struggle…