There was a post here earlier today about do we find we are more laid back and let things roll off or back now that we are older. I honestly can't remember all that it said but it was pulled. I'm sure there is a good explanation for it. I'll leave it at that.

Here is my response to it. Please add anything you think applies. I'd be interested to hear what all of you have to say.

I don't know if I would say that I let things just roll off my back. I'd say I have more understanding of how things work, of how what we think and the way we think isn't necessarily the same as others so I'm less apt to let it bother me. Rather than think they are just stupid I see if there is something I missed in my expectations or my explanation. I also have been in the situation of having to deal with people that are not happy about something when I have no control but I'm the one that has to listen to it. I try now to treat others in that situation well, but let them know those that make the decisions need to be told.

I think I appreciated life when I was younger but I didn't really know what it was that I appreciated. There is so much to life that you don't see/understand until you have lived it. I now understand what it takes to make things happen and for them to go well. I am appreciative of others that do things for me because I know what it took to do it. Just because we pay someone for a service they are still people and everyone deserves to be appreciated and respected. As a child and a young man I knew that intellectually but had no appreciation for it. I treated people well but now it's different because I have empathy and or sympathy for individuals.
I know there is so much to appreciate from a mature person and to be learned from them and to be gained just from being in there presence. Now that I am am mature I wish I had appreciated that when I was young and had taken advantage of what they had to offer me and now I can't

When you are young you don't know what you don't know. That's why young people think they know it all. They are actually some things now I wish I didn't know.

I know when I was young I would think a child close to a car or the street or any potentially dangerous situation should be watched and stopped from continuing. Needed to be warned. Why, because they could get hurt. Now it's different. How? Now I think the same thing when I see it but there is an added feeling that wasn't there before. Now I also have an awful feeling in my gut that hopes nothing bad happens and dreads how tragic it would be if something did happen. It makes me not just think it but actually move to do something if no one else is.

It is said that grandparents are so great with kids because they have time. That's true but it's also because they have learned that things Take Time and it's that time that is important. Time is also important in relation to what I said in my first paragraph.

Didn't mean to go on. But I've actually been thinking about this some lately. Thanks for the chance to say it.