More or less patience as you've gotten older?

Ronni

Ronni

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I've always been a patient sort, but I've found as I've gotten older that my patience tends to wear thin faster. Not with the grandkids..I WISH I had the patience with my own kids when they were little that I have with the grands now!!

It's other people, other things. Whereas before I'd just put up with them patiently now I get irritated, and more and more I'm resorting to just not being around those people or things that bug me.

What about you?
 

Exactly the opposite. I've always been very, very impatient..it's a well know trait of my star sign..., and although I still am impatient , I find I've calmed down a lot , compared to how I once was...
 
I have mellowed and my version patience has changed,
for young children and young mothers I have lots also
for those in need of help, both men and women.
Friendly people are also in my good books.

But for idiots and arrogant big-heads I have none.

Mike.
 

I've always been impatient and had a bit of a temper to boot.....not a very good combination is it ? :)

I think I've mellowed a tad with age.
 
I have become much more patient compared to what I was even ten years ago. Sometimes I think if I mellow too much more I'll be either a really good bourbon...or unconscious.
 
I've grown more impatient with things that needlessly waste my time. I'm 85. Waste my dollar, it will be replaced the first of the month. Waste my time it's gone forever and what's left is limited.
 
I find it a paradox that the closer I get to the grave, the more time I seem to have. Nothing much disturbs my equilibrium these days and I find I am calm and patient all of the time. The only exception is when I am tired from lack of sleep and they I become rather irritable. A long nap restores me to my usual disposition.
 
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I’ve always been impatient and never suffered fools gladly, as I’ve aged I seem to be more patient but suffer fools even less gladly !
 
I'm very patient until I'm not. And then, when you haven't gotten the hint, which you should have, then my explosion is all on you, cause you knew it, and didn't do anything about it. And that has never changed about me. :)
 
I have much less patience where goods or services that I'm paying for are concerned. I speak up & am much more insistent on getting what I'm paying for or there will be consequences. No more " oh well, that's ok..." When something or somebody doesn't deliver. Giving fewer second chances, more "one and done." Concurrently, more selective in who I do business with.
 
I am more patient because at my age I've come to realize that nothing much really matters, at all, in this life. I don't sweat the small stuff, and 95% of everything we deal with is the small stuff. Let it ride!
 
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