Happy Monday Steemverse!!
My apologies for missing this past Monday. This time of year doesn't really go how I plan or hope it goes. It's not due to the holidays, even though that would make it easy to explain. Such is life and after so many years I let it go.
I don't know about you guys, from time to time I need an exercise in patience. I am sure you have had one of those moments that you stare at the pot urging it to boil faster. No matter what it takes the same amount of time each time, yet there are those times one could swear it took twice as long as normal.
How often do we set goals for ourselves only to give up because we're not seeing a result in a time frame ? More often than we care to admit. We have grown, well growing into a society seeking instant gratification. Now is not soon enough. We wait at a stoplight and start to think "When is the light going to change?" We're almost positive that 10 minutes have passed in all actuality, it had been 2 minutes.
Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. ... Having patience means you can remain calm, even when you've been waiting forever or dealing with something painstakingly slow or trying to teach someone how to do something and they just don't get it.
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Capacity For Waiting: The ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset.
Why is it so hard for some of us to practice patience? I think that has to do with a loss of control. It seems in most cases where people get really impatient is when they cannot control the speed or time frame for something to happen. We cannot control another as much as we wish we could. Having to be patient and wait for a result can be excruciating depending on what is at stake.
Learning patience helps us to keep our lives in perspective. It helps us to be mindful of our lives and our situations. Rushing around creates chaos around us. Patience allows us to enjoy the journey. To be able to see what is going on, to keep life in perspective and experience our journey is a key to life. Pushing and racing towards an outcome brings anger, frustration and anxiety in to your life. While these are natural in a general sense it is not natural to push towards this. As we learn how to be more patient, we start to appreciate life a bit more.
Yes we do get impatient when waiting on results from a doctor or a job interview or any number of life events. Does it really make a difference in when you find out the answer? Does finding out today make it any better or worse than finding out tomorrow?
Let the situation unfold, see what you can learn without the influence of anger or anxiety.
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