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These days, I think we have such a level of digital availability, that we have lost our sense of patience when it comes to disruptions to our normal activities. With a lot of what we do increasingly online, we become even more aware of "wait times" and combined with our tendency to check and refresh screens every 14 nanoseconds no matter where we are, we are constantly reminded of the disruption.
It isn't just digitally though, as we tend to (on average) have more access to all kinds of goods and services without the wait times that were normal in the past. So much of our lives have become "on-demand" from the shows we watch, the food we eat and even the people we date, that we never have to practice patience. As the saying goes, patience is a virtue.
Virtue is more than having morals, it is about other things too and traditionally, it relates to valor and purity, strength and merit, with the merit being related to the value of a skill or trait, which is the sense it is used in regards to patience.
Patience itself isn't just about waiting to get what is wanted, it is also about being able to remain calm and allow something to develop or build. Having patience gives the bandwidth to focus on other things while what is wanted is running its course in the background. I think like not being able to exhibit patience, a lot of people are losing the ability to be effective under the conditions of not immediately having what is wanted. Instead, it seems that many people are hyper-sensitive to identifying every perceived "slight" against them and magnifying and amplifying it to a much larger size than it has merit to be.
Mountains out of molehills.
And once this thing has spiraled in the mind, it makes it even harder to let go as rather than being a small slight, it has now become a threat or an injury, and we feel minimized and victimized by its presence. A lot of social causes are driven by this growing and often self-imposed sense of victimhood, where a person can find a group of similarly hurt people and lay blame on another group for their position in the world. From here, all kinds of behaviors can be justified in a ramping affect that often leads to various forms of violence.
It all starts in the mind.
It is easy to say that "attitude is everything", but how many people actually explore and reflect upon what this means in regards to the ownership of their own experience. Instead, people release themselves from responsibility of having to deal with themselves, by pushing their unfiltered emotion-driven actions into the world with complete disregard to the harm they can cause and the consequences of their actions.
What many don't seem to realize is that everyone has the ability to feel how they want, but when those feelings get pushed out into the world, they become "public property", as they start to affect the lives of others. It doesn't matter if it is a smile or a fit of rage, it affects the world. For every action there is a reaction and the resulting response is going to usually be a reflection of the initial input, often amplified in the echo back, especially in the negative.
When anger gets pushed into the world it becomes a threat to the experience of others and the intuitive response is to put up defenses to protect and then remove the source of the threat. If people are continually exploding in outrage at the molehills, the people around them will distance themselves as they do not want to be caught up in the whirlwind, they do not want to put themselves in harm's way. Due to the lack of trust, when they do have to be around the untrusted, they tiptoe.
Online however, there is far less tiptoeing needed, as there is the protection of the screen, meaning less consequence for action, so response is more likely. Factor in that the same environment is the home of people looking to trigger response, and it can become quite a toxic environment that continuously becomes more polarized across an increasing number of topics until there is no way to have a broad relationship with anyone, as there are far too many "deal breaker" points to undermine it. This leads to increasing disconnection and further time spent in turning those molehills into mountains, to increase the sense of victimhood.
Everyone is "entitled" to their emotions, but they need to remember that they are theirs - It is about ownership. If you consider what ownership actually means, it is about being able control the thing that is owned with intention. This puts those who like to "express themselves unfiltered" in a precarious position, as if they cannot control their outbursts of emotion, their emotions are no longer theirs and become public property, meaning that they do not own their emotions, but they will have to live with the consequences of being their prisoner, told what to do and when to do it - a victim of themselves.
Patience is a virtue - and there are many more skills of value too.
Some leave their attitude up to chance, some find ways to take ownership of their experience.
Which are the victims?
Taraz
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