Does age really matters?

I am actually in the middle of doing one of the house chores right now. Feeling quite burned up and tired, I'm taking a rest for a while by writing a little bit about what I had in mind. I don't know how to start actually. Cause..I wonder if I might be judged because of it..

Where ever we go, especially to a new place, whether it's new school, a new work place, we'll sure meet new people which come from different background. It's really nice to make new friends, building up new friendship. When we were at school, we meet people of the same age. We called them, our peers. Usually, at this time, we only or most of time spend time with them (our peers). Moving on to the university, we usually happened to meet those from the same age as well. Some of us might have the experience entering the university and end up mixing around with people from different age. As we go along, we enter the working world where we end up mixing around with those who might have been in there for ages while we are just starting. 

I don't know how to express this. It just that, does seniority really matters? Well, I guess to some people the answer is yes. Can we really judge someone based on their age? or maybe their attire? When I first start my first real job, I was shocked with all these questions. Funny, when people judged me according to their own thoughts about myself as if they really know me. Do you? Funny, when they simply judged me while they barely know me. I read a  quote in a book, "We always see people as we are, not as they are". 

When some people, simply compare me to themselves during their young age, I don't know what they had in mind but I just feel like "Why?". Why do you have to compare myself at this time with yourself at your time? If it's necessary, I may understand. But sometimes..why? I appreciate this one story I read in an email. Our life, ourselves shouldn't be decide by other people.But our own self. People can say a lot of things based on their experience, it doesn't mean we have to follow without filtering. God creates each of every one of us with talent. We may be at lost sometimes and it's good seeking for good advice. Yet, I believe each of every one of us has our own way of dealing with things. It's really hard to be a good listener because we always tend to speak more about ourselves rather than listen patiently to what other people have to say..Isn't better if we can first seek to understand to be understood?

I don't know what's the purpose of me writing this. I just feel like it is not fair if we simply judged someone based on what? their age? their look? their attire? I've learnt my lesson. But I've seen so many tend to feel superior because they are older and have the tendency to suppress the young ones. I understand that the young ones should respect the older ones but isn't it nice if we can respect each other as human beings? as a person? I read in someone's twitter that "A person's maturity cannot be judged based on their look". I kind of agree with that. 

I feel sad because..as the most junior worker, there are times when I feel like being treated as if I can't handle things. Being told this and that, simply being judged and being advised as if I didn't know anything about it. I do have my experience too. Sometimes, out of humbleness and respect, I tend to agree and didn't say anything about it even though it does effects how I feel about that person and sometimes, myself. Maybe I should learn to express myself more or maybe not...cause I believe, they will see it for themselves. That way, they can think about it themselves.