They have learned all that with their own experience after hardships and sufferings. We have a golden chance to learn from them the lessons that they have already learned. We might disagree with them on certain matters but these are only a few and this is because of the changing world. However, for most of the things, their advice is always solid. They have in depth knowledge of the age they lived in. Time keeps on changing and new things keep on developing to ease our life. For example, we are quite used to cell phones these days. About 50 years back, it was not a part of routine life. How life was at that time, we can know from a senior who is 60 years old. Thus, senior people are a window to the past with their own experience. There are certain things in life we consider good when we are young. As time passes, our views on them changes and we come to realize that it was not a good decision to go that way. Our elders play a vital role in selecting or rejecting such things. Most of us reach up to those findings only after they have gone through that experience themselves and spent a lot of their time in that. The point to convey here is that our seniors are a great help if we want to learn about life. They took care of us when we are kids and it is our time to pay back when they reach that stage of life. They expect respect and help from young ones. There are many ways we can learn from them and help them. These are only a few reasons we should respect our elders.