wearing other family tartan rather than your own

[Jock Scot]

I think generational differences come into play aswell Rocky.

I think you are quite right there and without sounding too much of a boring old codger, in my experiance(sorry to sound patronising young Jock!) many thirty year old kilt wearing "rebels" become forty five year old staunch traditionalists! However, in the long run it is almost inevitable that traditions change and perhaps young Jock's generation will do the changing? Good luck to you laddie, it is your generation's future that matters, not mine!

[denmcdough]

Jock Scot, you are definitely wrong....you DO matter!!!!!! We all matter.

[Jock Scot]

Jock Scot, you are definitely wrong....you DO matter!!!!!! We all matter.

Don't worry laddie I am not planning bowing out just yet! But at the age of three score years and ten, plus a wee tad, one does have to face an unpalatable and inevitable fact! You are quite right though, we all do matter!

Nevertheless it is a young person's world, it always has been, and whilst us old codgers may be able to assist in some small way with their experience, it seems that the younger generation are determined, however much they deny it(I did!), to make some of the same mistakes that we did and our ancestors probably did! However these youngsters do come with fresh inquiring minds and amaze the world with some new progressive idea that astounds us all and that is great and it is also necessary! So I will stick with trying to pass on what I know----a little bit about kilts perhaps--- for as long as people are willing to listen and that is fine by me and I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that in 40 years time the likes of Young Jock will say exactly what I am saying!.

[denmcdough]

Hey Jock, so glad you're "not bowing out," yet!

I do agree with you, though. As a person probably not too far behind your years of wisdom, I still hope I matter, especially since I stand in front of a classroom all day with young people. Sometimes I wonder if they "get it!" I guess the the generation in front of us said the same thing, eh?

Yeah, young Jock will have an epiphany as he gets older...with ages comes wisdom (most of the time).

[BoldHighlander]

Hey Jock, so glad you're "not bowing out," yet!

Hear! Hear!
I still need to get over Jock's way, get a personal tour of Keppoch (land of my ancestors), & share a wee dram by the River Ness with him!