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Q: have your patience increased or reduced since you came to China?
what are the motives of the increase or reduction of your patience?
I have a little more patience, because I excuse behavior that is Chinese. At home if I had to shove someone away from leaning over my shoulder to look what I am typing on my phone, I'd just head butt him. If a person kept trying to put a foot ahead of me in a line, I really would not stand for it.
TedDBayer:
That walking into me that men tend to do, I don't tolerate that. If you walk into me, I will not flex, I just put my shoulder into them.
patience level is the same, but I have far less optimism about most things here. everything is like going to Pizza Hut, first the path there is slow and you must wait in line, but you know the reward will be disappointing.
For the first few years, it increased substantially. I became tolerant of many of the negative aspects of Chinese life. I could laugh off the rudeness and dirty habits. Recently, I have found myself becoming less and less tolerant. Maybe after all these years, the drip, drip, drip effect of all the "helllooooo's", pushing, spitting, indifference to privacy, cheating, dishonesty etc. is getting to me. Now I just treat all of them with extreme disdain. China has finally got the better of me.
I think my patience decreased while in China, but increased once I returned home, because some things that used to make me angry just seem silly now.
I am reasonably new here....1 year.... and I certainly tolerate more than I ever would at home .... have to, or I'd go nuts (nuttier) ......... I hope to learn not to fret, about these little things, in the coming months/years, over anything that is not in my control..... if I don't get it soon, I'll be outta here soon.
At first my patience got seriously less, (although I never had much anyway) especially when driving.
Then during the last 'golden week' October holiday I was still working, and driving my ebike to and from work was a joy as there was almost no traffic. When everyone went back to work traffic was back to its usual suicidal mayhem and one day I found myself weaving through it all, cutting all over the road, swerving around people, cars, buses, trucks the works and I realised I had a huge grin on my face and I wasn't in the slightest bit angry, I was enjoying it! So I think my patience has, finally, improved.
