This is halfway through the statements.

28. You lose patience with people who are not as efficient as you 

Well, now this one’s going to be tricky. In general I don’t think I do. In fact, in a lot of areas, the way people do things doesn’t even enter into my mind. Now my wife, on the other hand, consistently questions why I do things the way I do: “I’m just wondering why you turned down this street rather than going the other way, which is faster.” Or “You know, there’s a keyboard shortcut for that…” I can see her impatience watching me do some things and I’ll just get up out of my seat and let her do it because she’s just itching to get in there and do it. I do this to her much less frequently, but there are times when I probably do question why she’s doing something a certain way. 

I know I do lose patience fairly easily when I’m trying to teach people things. There was a lady at church who was doing stuff on the computer and consistently not only messing up, but forgetting the things I had already told her. At one point I decided to try a shock value and I just told her straight up, “How many times am I going to have to tell you to do this?” She just stopped and looked straight ahead, and then said ok. I know that worked with me one time when I was learning to finish concrete. My boss had explained something to me and I hadn’t followed it. He then testily said: I don’t want to keep having to tell you the same thing over and over. I got the message and straightened up. But I know I can deal with men in a different way than women. I can tell a guy: Quit screwing up and do it right, you moron! Guys may not like it, but we’ll get it and move on. I would never call a woman a name like that. I might have crossed over the line too because while she did get it, I heard years later that she was still holding that against me.  

I’ll admit I’m not a patient teacher. I don’t mind sharing knowledge I have, but I have no aptitude for trying to gently motivate people along. I can lose patience quickly if I think someone isn’t getting it. I don’t think they’re stupid or anything, I just don’t personally want to try and deal with helping them to get it. I’m exceptionally thankful for those people who DO have a gift of sharing the information though. I just know I’m not one of them. So, mercifully for anyone who would be my student, I don’t take on students. Of course, If I really like you and like spending time (probably my top love-language) then I’ll overlook just about everything because the important thing is the together time, not the efficiency of whatever we happen to be doing. 

29. You end up doing things at the last possible moment 

I’m not a procrastinator, no. Years of working for myself taught me to know the deadline, and establish benchmarks to hit along the way so that I would accomplish things on time. And I really hate the idea of being late. I know, weird for an Italian, but I almost get a physical anxiety when things aren’t happening on time. If you tell me something is gonna be 2 hours, I expect 2 hours and set myself psychologically for it. But if church, which is supposed to be 1.5 hours, starts going long, I start getting antsy.  

I hate being late, and if we’re running late, I can start getting irritable. Though there are some times when I don’t worry about it. For example I joined our choir a year ago. Whenever we meet with the whole band, they tell the choir to be there at 7, and we just sit there while the band dorks around for 45 minutes. THAT starts to bug me, so I’ll often show up late for that.  

But other than the above-mentioned type of scenario, I would disagree with this.  

30. You have always been fascinated by the question of what, if anything, happens after death 

I don’t know that I’m fascinated by it, but I grew up in a Christian household, so I’ve always thought of heaven afterward. I believe in it, but I can’t say I’m fascinated. There are too many things that, accepting the Biblical account, I just can’t make sense of. But I’m not particularly concerned either. I figure I’ll get answers when I get there, and wondering about things that I can’t get answers to doesn’t seem particularly useful to me.  

While I know there is no absolute proof of an afterlife, I have found out-of-body experiences in near-death situations to be a sort of strong evidence for a separate entity we usually think of as a soul- a state of consciousness that persists even after the body is gone. This will usually entail a person who registers as dead- no brain activity at all- and yet they have an awareness of things that are happening around them during that time. There have been many reports of things happening in the near vicinity, where they were out of their bodies, and were able to confirm things that had happened while they were essentially dead. In some of these reports, there have been descriptions of angels, etc. We of course can’t confirm those because we can’t see angels. But we can confirm that x was happening at the time they said they saw it, even though they were dead and had no brain activity at the time.  

These experiences would seem to me a strong evidence that the soul, or consciousness, survives the life of the body. Does consciousness apart from the body prove an afterlife? I don’t know that I could go that far, but it would be strongly suggestive of it.  

Does this statement concern itself more with whether or not I think there is an afterlife, or my level of concern about the question. What I’m unsure of, even when trying to calculate my level of concern or fascination, is how much other people are concerned. I know a lot of people would rather avoid thinking about death at all, so maybe in that light, I am more fascinated than average.