Patience always pays in different ways

You want a new phone and you want it now at any cost. You have only 5,000 rupees and the phone you want costs 8,000 rupees .You can either wait for the price to fall or you can settle for something else which is cheaper. You don’t want to wait and end up settling for something you didn’t want in the first place.

You are unemployed. You look for a job and get rejected. You search harder and find no success. Something finally comes up which neither requires skills nor pays enough. You take it.

You have had a bad break-up. You miss the intimate moments and the person you had it with. You can’t get the person back, so you start searching for a new one. You still feel empty and hollow. And you wonder why always with only me.

Are you getting the flow very clearly among these life situations? You continue with your trend and keep cursing your luck for not finding the one. More often than not, this is what happens, keeping aside exceptional circumstances. We want something, absolutely clear on what we are looking for. We even know that we will get it if we give it time. But therein lies the problem because we don’t want to wait. We want it now. Right now! So what happens?

We end up settling for something of lesser value to us and something which will neither last nor make us happy in the long term. What follows? We remain with an unfulfilled feeling, continuing to be desperate and not waiting enough for something else that is really important and would matter in the long run. We love to have options. We hate to show patience.

Be it a job, or the the love you seek, you’re too desperate to wait for the right one. You keep hopping from one to another because you have needs, you have wants. And you want them fulfilled. Right now! You need everything right now. To hell with patience. To hell with waiting. So what is Patience after all? Patience is Endurance. Patience is waiting for what you want. Patience is waiting for the right time. Patience is almost non-existent in today’s digital generation next.

It is normally observed that patience is the ability to remain normal when I cease to be effective. This retains normalcy and intellectual balance in situations where I know I am no longer effective. In doing so, I save myself and allow my intellectual activities to continue unhindered. Patience is exercised for oneself and not for others.

Patience is the virtue of exercising of restraint in trying situations, which enables the individual to proceed towards worthy goals, deflected by adverse circumstances or repeated provocations. If he allows himself to become upset by opposition, taunts or other kinds of unpleasantness, he will never reach his goals. He will simply become enmeshed in trivialities.

The only way to deal with the solid irksome side of daily living is to observe patience. Patience will ensure that whenever one has some bitter experience, he would opt for the way of tolerance rather than that of reaction to provocation. It will enable one to absorb shocks and to continue, undeterred, on one’s onward journey.

Patience, as well as being a practical solution to the problems faced in the outside world, is also a means of positive character building. One who fails to exercise patience, gives free rein to negative thoughts and feelings, consequently he develops a negative personality, while one who remains patient is morally bolstered by his own positive thoughts and feelings and as a result develops a positive personality. Stay blessed! #kishoreshintre