Mellowed with Age
In this article so far, we’ve talked a lot about people who get more cantankerous and impatient as they get older, eventually becoming the sort of old person who sits on their porch and shakes their fists at the neighborhood kids, but that’s not a universal experience. Some people get more mellow with every year that passes.
The optimistic part of me wants to believe that it happens as we gain more wisdom and maturity, and those things teach us to take what life throws at us with more equanimity. The realistic part of me suspects that it has more to do with getting lazier and less energetic.