mid-life: more patience or more urgency?

[everything]

so I'm not exactly having any mid-life crisis here but for those of you in or past mid-life, would you say you have

1) more patience
2) more sense of urgency
3) some mix?

[Darth Rock&Roll]

d) more trips around the sun

e)more junk mail

f) less socks

[fuga]

For me (at 42) more of a sense of focus (rather than urgency). I am setting goals for things that I have dreamed about in life and doing the hard work to achieve them.

[everything]

fuga, yes. Chris M's advocacy of honesty in priorities rings true here. I feel more focus and urgency. I think it's easier to prioritize now when thinking "hmm... this could be the midlife point. better not waste time."

trying to have more patience for things like the kids and other stuff.

Darth ... less socks? LOL

[GrahamB]

Hmmm... approaching the big 40 myself!

agree with Fuga - you tend to 'know what you want' more.... so in a way you have less patience with things that don't matter, and you focuss more on what you do want. Mmmmmm.... I'm sure it all balances out

Oh yeah - and hair starts to grow out of your ears - what's that for?

[Darth Rock&Roll]

the ear hair is so you can find your way around in the dark.

[GrahamB]

the ear hair is so you can find your way around in the dark.

Lol

Like cat's whiskers?

[Interloper]

Zero urgency. A lot mellower now than I was even a couple of years ago.
I guess it's a "What the hell, it's too late to do that so I may as well find something I -can- do."