Posted on 09/03/2019 9:51:15 AM PDT by C19fan
This is absolutely palpable to me on my daily drive home.
The degree to which other drivers have lost patience over the past 1 to 2 decades is abundantly noticeable.
I learned patience by being a Detroit Lions fan.
I learned patience growing up by waiting on queues at Disney World.
And I didn’t rad the article. It was too long. ;)
My Nan, rip always said she would ask the priest at my confirmation to give me an extra slap for patience.
I learned patience fishing, still learning.
I left my 8 mile commute in Seattle for a 75 mile commute in Kentucky. The Kentucky commute takes longer, but not much longer. When I visit relatives in Seattle, I’m appalled at what people put up with there. Thank God I’m the only one driving on the shoulder on I-5 and I 405 or I’d never get anywhere.
Been waiting > 25 yrs for the Florida Panthers hockey team to not be a joke.
Ah, patience! I remember downloading a ‘gif’, in 1993 from my charter BBS in the area, and waiting for 6 minutes for it to load onto the monitor screen! And that was a non-moving picture!
The degree to which other drivers have lost patience over the past 1 to 2 decades is abundantly noticeable.
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Other forms of road courtesy have declined in the last few decades. I am generally a patient driver but the amount of people who pace with traffic and don’t pass in passing lanes is epidemic. I honestly think a lot of them are road trolling and know perfectly well it’s a passing lane, so I don’t give them the pleasure of seeing a reaction or tailgating. I agree with you though, it’s not just patience that is declining though. It’s many forms of positive qualities and virtues
“I left my 8 mile commute in Seattle for a 75 mile commute in Kentucky. The Kentucky commute takes longer, but not much longer. When I visit relatives in Seattle, I’m appalled at what people put up with there. Thank God I’m the only one driving on the shoulder on I-5 and I 405 or I’d never get anywhere.”
Oh it has gotten far worse....
I worked at a company that moved about 15 minutes closer to me.
It took me a week or two to get used to the loss of “alone time” in the car.
At least for the morning commute.
I learned patience growing up...
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Would you hurry up and get to the point? ;)
That’s what I’m finding out too. I have three hours every day to prep for teaching sunday school and bone up on related materials in Youtube and podcasts. I discovered Michael Heiser and the guy is amazing. I’ve listened to all 278 or so “Naked Bible” podcasts and have looped back to the beginning
When I was growing up, classes were mostly taught in one room through sixth grade, except for things like music or geography which used instruments or maps and visual aid extensively
We had classes that ran an hour and a half, or sometimes two hours. Discipline was maintained and this was backed up by the school board. Additional incentives were provided in competition for class standing, harnessing the competitive drive. Students read aloud, summarized reading passages aloud, solved problems (made up on spot not drawn from a book) on a blackboard in front of the class.
Nobody who failed failed in secret.
Embarrassment, competition, and enforced discipline worked together to teach concentration skills to even the shortest attention span students (who would be diagnosed with ADHD today) and that skill of disciplined focusing of attention is an important life skill which isn't being taught to a discernible extent anymore.
When does any student today ever learn to keep at a task for two hours straight in today's schools?
We now live in an always-connected world and I find even myself fighting the urge to check emails and texts while in a business meeting or as I'm sure as many Freepers can relate, refreshing the LATEST POSTS button over and over again, like a lab mouse.
So increasingly I have learned to unplug from all of that as much as possible. I shut all the alerts off my phone so I know longer get a "ding" everytime an email or text comes in. This has reduced my stress level and I'm sure my blood pressure as well.
Also, I read old-fashioned books as much as possible. For example, much fuss has been made of the "Game Of Thrones" TV series, of which I have never watched. Instead, I have resolved to read the books first, with no interruptions. For while I'm reading, I shut off all my devices.
I'm halfway through Book 1 and I must say it's a really good read. Reminds me of when I was a kid discovering the worlds of Tolkien, and Asimov, etc.
Always better to read the books! Many young people could never sit down long enough to get through a good book these days. And that's a shame. I'm a big advocate of technology but sometimes you just need to shut it off. Many of us are overloaded with "inputs".
I don’t have time for this.
I hate it when I try to dial up AOL and get a busy signal...
Imagine the patience of the few remaining cubs’ fans.
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