Blue,

I find myself getting really annoyed with people who think in certain ways. When I was much younger, I used to think they just did it to be annoying. I think I was more in the "but-how-could-you-think/do-that?" school rather than "how-dare-you-disagree-with-me?"

Then I went to this course through my job and took the Myers-Briggs Type psychological profile test and I discovered that the type of person who annoyed me the most was the one who thought exactly opposite from the way I did.

I think I have gotten more tolerant as I've gotten older or at least have learned that people perceive the world in many different ways and can have some really surprising ways of looking at things.

I think it gets harder to respect other people's opinions when they're very different from ours if those opinions are going to threaten us in some way.