When you get older...

[brucio]

Lots of things change as you get older.
Physical things, like hair and teeth falling out, thicker glasses, bones becoming as brittle and fragile as pasta tubes, skin getting so thin that you bruise if it's a windy day.
Mentally, you change too-but I'm not talking about Alzheimer's, or dementia or senility.
Patience.
Sometimes you find you're more patient than before, like in a supermarket checkout, and the woman in front has just bought a 29c bottle of lemonade, and is paying by credit card.
Sometimes you're less patient, like in the same situation, but the woman has just bought $200 worth of groceries, stacked up in her trolley, and seems surprised that she actually has to pay for this. So she starts looking for her purse, which is in her handbag, which is under all the groceries....
The same thing applies when you're making something.
You start off with a liitle bit of excitment, looking forward to making something.
The longer it goes on, the less the excitment, the more of it's a chore that has to be got through.
If it starts going wrong, or getting difficult, hate begins to creep in.
Then it's a case of "I'll finish this b****y thing, if it's the last thing I ever do."
Knowing inside you, that if you keep going with this attitude, it probably will be. (Remember the physical changes include your heart...)
Or am I unique and alone in thinking this way?
Bruce

[Janette]

No...that sounds about right!!

[hermit_scroller]

Couldn't have said it better myself.
Hermit

[bigEd_H]

Quit talking about me.

[ajay]

I see you've been walking in my shoes. If you ever see me in a grocery line, pick another line as I have a unique ability to always choose the wrong (longest wait) line. Must be the family curse.

[Greenfield_Bob]

Same here Bruce

Bob

[minowevie]

Ajay, so true, so true. and about the other stuff. aaaa what was we talking about. Oh, I remmember. forgetting stuff. or was it being short time, aaaa what ever. oh well. I enjoyed it. what I do is. blame it on hubby, he is getting old you know. and I don't remmber what I was talking about. your friend Evie

[sawdustus]

Stay out of my line also. I am just as bad as Ajay at picking toll line also. Brucio got everything just right but missed one. It always takes a lot longer to do it than it used to. What I was able to finish in two hours 20 years ago, now takes me all day. Maybe it's just the extra bathroom trips. Yeah, that's it.

Sawdustus

[CanadianScroller]

The grocery line does annoy me. I often wonder how much of my life I have wasted in line ups.
Things do take me a little longer than they used to.

When I first started the job I have now, the older gent who was training me offered me a tale.

There was an old bull and a young bull on the top of a hill.
The young bull was eager to impress the old bull. It turned to the old bull and said " Lets run down the hill and take advantage of one of the cows"
The old bull just smiled, turned to him and said "Lets walk down and take advantage of them all"

I am glad our minds change as our bodies do. I am glad I am more patient than I used to be. I am glad my wife understands when I am not.

[Pop]

I now know why "being patient" and "being a patient" is so close. I didn't get the patience to actually start scrolling untill I was almost 60. I think the experience we had going through what we see other folks do so badly them selves, contributes to our being so impatient with them. Remember...at some time in our lives we were the ones in front of somebody in line. After a while you have to ask yourself, "Why am I still in such a hurry to get stuff done? Look how old rushing through life has made me look". Must have been the friction from all that bad air rushing past our bodies.