Patience Is More Than Waiting

Patience Is More Than Waiting

How often have we come across people WAITING & WAITING, not because they are 'lazy dogs' but rather because they believe they are exercising PATIENCE, which is technically true and correct but there's a loophole on that logic. Rumi, the 13th century Islamic Scholar was quoted: 'PATIENCE IS NOT SITTING & WAITING, IT IS FORESEEING .  IT IS LOOKING AT THE THORN AND SEEING THE ROSE.   That egged me to have this as our thread today for a simple reason. Patience Does NOT Mean Waiting.  As virtues go, PATIENCE is a quite one.  It's often exhibited behind closed doors, NOT on a public stage.  

Yet, PATIENCE is essential to our daily life.  Having PATIENCE means being able to wait calmly in the face of frustration and adversity.  So, anywhere where there is frustration or adversity, we have the opportunity to practice it.  In school [for students], at home with our kids, at work with our colleagues, PATIENCE can make the difference between annoyance and equanimity, between worry and tranquility.  However, experts have concluded that PATIENCE comes in many 'DIFFERENT STRIPES'

One, there is 'INTERPERSONAL PATIENCE', that virtue of simply facing annoying people with equanimity.  And studies show that those who are more PATIENT towards others also tend to be more hopeful in life whereas another type of PATIENCE involves those waiting for our life's hardships without frustration or despair.  Studies linked this kind of people to those having more hope in life

For those beating their chest because they have been WAITING, be more incisive for that kind of WAITING you are manifesting.  I can attest to have observed people [close enough] who thought they are so PATIENT by WAITING and WAITING.  He had a long list of options and that's all that matters even if the plans have gone awry❗❗❗

In the end, it's true that person managed to stretch his WAITING and WAITING till the last drop, till he ran out of options but where did that lead him to?   He was left high and dry, holding on to a bag of hopes that have gone the drain because he [wrongly] thought that by WAITING and WAITING, he was on the right side of things.  If there's one thing you CAN'T recoup, it is that LOST TIME, all lost on the pretext of WAITING❓❓❓