with age comes...
It's interesting to me which of my attitudes toward life and other people are different now than they were when I was in college. In some ways, surprisingly few. I think I'm more nuanced in my approach toward people; I'm more compassionate about the weaknesses in others that lead to behaviors I don't like, though I'm only a bit more tolerant of the behaviors themselves. Having suffered more makes me more compassionate, but having done much more, my increased compassion toward human weakness is tempered by my awareness of the things that can often be done to help offset those weaknesses in our actual behaviors.