I’m not even 40 yet, so take this with a grain of salt.
I don’t feel like I’ve necessarily gotten angrier in the sense the OP describes - that of things annoying me more.
However, there are a number of very frustrating problems in my life right now. I have a certain baseline of anger that is with me continually because of these problems, and that is something I didn’t have when I was younger.
On the other hand, I am at least dealing with things in a more outwardly calm manner than I did when I was young. One of these ongoing frustrations raised its head yesterday. I thought I’d solved this ongoing problem two months ago, but my solution has proven not to work, yet again, so now I’m back to square one with a problem I’ve been unable to solve despite seven years of trial and error. I’m pretty pissed off about it, but I’ll be able to handle it without raising my voice. (When this same problem failed to be solved four years ago, I let that anger show more than I should have).
So, I don’t know… if the trend continued I suppose I’d wind up as the apparently kindly old man who is inwardly seething with rage. That’s obviously not where I intend to end up, but I don’t suppose any crotchety old guy intended it.
That’s where I feel I am - more patient and understanding of where other people are coming from, and less tolerant of the assholes of the world being assholes.
I think I know what you voted for.
I would have been if I was born in the US - end of November. As it is, I’m sometimes a Grey Cup baby.
That sputtering uncomprehending fury comes from two things, I think - the first is why on earth won’t people JUST USE THEIR FUCKING BRAINS ALREADY AND STOP DOING SUCH STUPID SHIT?!? and the other is, OMFG, this is the five hundredth time I’ve seen this particular stupidity, and why won’t people JUST USE THEIR FUCKING BRAINS ALREADY AND STOP DOING SUCH STUPID SHIT?!?
People driving badly and doing other stupid things don’t bother me at all now that I’ve passed 60. Maybe that just means that I drive badly and do other stupid things myself and that smarter people are seething at the things I do.
I get stone cold mad, though, at large groups of people who enable institutional inertia. Which is kinda stupid because I probably can’t do anything about it.
