tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888388.post116083245461051834..comments2023-07-04T06:11:21.740-04:00Comments on Working The Room: Lesbian generation gap questionsRitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021410244877220513noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888388.post-30654373704244329512006-10-15T10:00:00.000-04:002006-10-15T10:00:00.000-04:00First off...I know MULTIPLE age 40+ women who occa...First off...I know MULTIPLE age 40+ women who occasionally, if not often, exhibit the maturity level of my favorite four-year-old. Don't get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with letting our inner child out occasionally. It's when 40 year-olds approach life as a continuum of such fun and freedom such as they embraced as 22-year olds that it gets a bit tiresome. Or maybe that's the control freak 'i-must-fix-them' in me coming out.<br /><br />That said, I would say we definitely all have the abiltiy to make the mistakes, the bad choices (I myself have returned more than one pair of shoes; though I don't have anywhere near as many shoes of the metaphoric (is that a word???) kind.<br /><br />So no, age does not = maturity. Experience matters, however. (And if you are a Cincinnatian reading this, I did not steal that line from the hospital billboard along the highways.)And if our lives, lesbian or not, are looked at as a journey, one would expect we'd learn from our travels. Otherwise, what's the point?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com