Tolerance

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  as you get older you become both more perceptive, and more comfortable in who you are. The first means your bullshit detector improves and you become less tolerant of bullshit artists, and the second means your defensiveness lessens so you no longer care about things that previously you felt reflected poorly on you in the eyes of others. You're becoming a grumpy old man. Welcome to the club. Time to get a rocking chair and a shotgun.

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  I've got a few years on you and have found similar, I am finding that as I mature so much of the small shit that I used to angst over I just don't care any more, so replace tolerance with indifference.Does a Barbie egg cup, pink socks or a four cylinder car make me gay or weak or......? No, and if someone thinks that then they are a small minded fool and that ain't my problem.Tolerance, if you have lived a full life and interacted with a wide section of society and you've been open to others experience then things like racism, sexuality and most other 'ism's" roll over you as you realise the unimportance of superficiality and the greater depth of the human experience.So I have become more tolerant and more indifferent at the same time, does that make sense ?

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  You're telling the story....lol How the hell would we know if you were the same in 1932?? Lol - Posted from rhpmobile

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  MissBishere

  9 years ago

  Both come with age, tolerance and intolerance. A tolerance balance sounds nice but for me it's more a dont fuck with me kind of thing. 👸🏻😆

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  I hadn't though of it as tolerance balance, you could be onto something lol. But I think, well for me, as I've gotten older, learnt more about myself and the world, my tolerance for certain things has decreased and increased in direct proportion to what I find important. Eating an egg from a Barbie egg cup, whilst cute, doesn't change much in the scheme of things but someone making "jokes" about someone's gender, or race, for example- yeah, I'm gunna rally against that.

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  ...just as tolerant as i was when younger...but I'm considerably more empathetic now.

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  AnnieWhichway

  9 years ago

  To bullshit has suddenly waned. Perhaps too much needy crap from others enlightened my need to be surrounded by genuine persons . Perhaps l passed the age where it's no longer acceptable to be told who l could be friends with. But either way, l now have a very fine tolerance measurable by a micrometer.......

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  There comes a time when the care factor starts to decline. You stop worrying about trivial crap and start caring about things that matter... All through my younger years I never gave a rats about what anyone thought of me. Until I started my own business and realised that public perception is very important to a person's reputation. Yet as a younger bloke I always wanted to appear tough enough that people didn't want to mess with me... Now, I just get on with life with the confidence that I don't have to appear in any way other than the way I see myself... Full of life - Posted from rhpmobile

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  To me seems like a minimalist attitude. It's accepting of nothing,an uneasiness it seems to me. I would like to think that I refuse to accept the unacceptable ,and embrace the rest. Q

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  RHP User

  9 years ago

  Definately the older I get the more I start to refuse to accept the unacceptable for myself. I liken it to stop being around lost souls all of the time. Or around control freaks that don't have the ability to love because they seperate there lives so much no one is allowed in. So back to going inward and focussing on me :) I'm happy with that as that's where all the answers are :) - Posted from rhpmobile

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