There are many virtues. A Wikipedia search showed me more than I could really be bothered to count. They included curiosity, frugality, cleanliness, honesty, courage and (weirdly) continence amongst others. All wonderful things I'm sure you'll agree. I would hope that everyone is, at the very least, continent.
As with many things in life, it seems that fashions change. Some virtues are stalwarts (like the little black dress), some grow in value and some are forgotten. Some are even forgotten by Wikipedia which upsets me a little because punctuality is one of the most undervalued virtues, and one I possess in abundance. I'm a little too punctual in actual fact, which is why other people being late is reeeeeeally annoying. Just be in time. If I manage it, why can't you? It's too cold to wait.
OK, I realise it's not cool to be on time. No one wants to be the first person at the pub so I've recently made a real effort to be late for stuff. It goes entirely against my nature though. However, because I am one of the only punctual people I know I've made it a new year's resolution to be less so. Be more selfish and take my own sweet time. (N.B. This will never be true for work, I'm not that much of a rebel!). It's what people expect...to such an extent that it's no longer particularly rude to be late, just stupid to be early.
This effort has not been wholly successful. Last week work forced me to be two and a half hours late for a birthday party..and I missed out on a Nandos. A few days later I aimed to be fifteen minutes late for a meeting, was actually twenty-five minutes late because the person I was meeting text me to put the time back, and I was still waiting for 5 minutes. Not fair! I just wanted someone other than me to notice all my hard work in changing the very core of my nature.
Part of the trouble is that I have a lot of free time at the moment so I'm just excited to be out and seeing people. Keener.
Perhaps the writer of the List of Virtues was also struggling with excess punctuality and deleted it from the list on purpose to deny its malevolent influence on their life.
Anyway, even though I don't think it would hurt if everyone arrives when they say they will, I guess as a minority I will have to adapt. Boo. Any replacement virtue suggestions will be considered. What with being at least half an hour late for everything from now on, I've got plenty of time to work on it.
As with many things in life, it seems that fashions change. Some virtues are stalwarts (like the little black dress), some grow in value and some are forgotten. Some are even forgotten by Wikipedia which upsets me a little because punctuality is one of the most undervalued virtues, and one I possess in abundance. I'm a little too punctual in actual fact, which is why other people being late is reeeeeeally annoying. Just be in time. If I manage it, why can't you? It's too cold to wait.
OK, I realise it's not cool to be on time. No one wants to be the first person at the pub so I've recently made a real effort to be late for stuff. It goes entirely against my nature though. However, because I am one of the only punctual people I know I've made it a new year's resolution to be less so. Be more selfish and take my own sweet time. (N.B. This will never be true for work, I'm not that much of a rebel!). It's what people expect...to such an extent that it's no longer particularly rude to be late, just stupid to be early.
This effort has not been wholly successful. Last week work forced me to be two and a half hours late for a birthday party..and I missed out on a Nandos. A few days later I aimed to be fifteen minutes late for a meeting, was actually twenty-five minutes late because the person I was meeting text me to put the time back, and I was still waiting for 5 minutes. Not fair! I just wanted someone other than me to notice all my hard work in changing the very core of my nature.
Part of the trouble is that I have a lot of free time at the moment so I'm just excited to be out and seeing people. Keener.
Perhaps the writer of the List of Virtues was also struggling with excess punctuality and deleted it from the list on purpose to deny its malevolent influence on their life.
Anyway, even though I don't think it would hurt if everyone arrives when they say they will, I guess as a minority I will have to adapt. Boo. Any replacement virtue suggestions will be considered. What with being at least half an hour late for everything from now on, I've got plenty of time to work on it.
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