Patience and tolerance are real powers

Do you remember the famous Mountain Man called Dashrath Manjhi? His wife was injured in an accident, and died from lack of medical care. The nearest hospital was one kilometer from their village, but they had to travel 70 kilometers to reach it. A mountain range was in the way, and there was no access road.

Dashrath was a tenant farmer with no equipment except a hammer and chisel. But he didn’t want what happened to his wife to happen to anyone else. So every night after work, he chiseled away at the mountain. After 22 years of painstaking work, he created a navigable road. This is the power of patience:

Patience doesn't mean passivity or resignation, but power. It's an emotionally freeing practice of waiting, watching, and knowing when to act. I'm presenting patience as a form of compassion, a re-attuning to intuition, a way to emotionally redeem your center in a world filled with frustration. Patience has the power of turning unsuccessful work into successful one. Patience teaches us how to stay calm in the difficult and complex situations. It increases our tolerance level. If we are patient enough we can think over a situation or work allocated to us and complete the same successfully.

I accepted the courage to change many things in others' lives. It did not happen. I lost my patience. If generally we would look at things and find out what are the results of having patience in our lives,I may come up with the following few. A baby needs 9 months 9 days to see the world. A child needs 2 years to speak. You need one year to get your bonus or increment. A mango tree needs years to bear fruit. Four years to graduate. Many years to be a solo entrepreneur. 2 years of preparation to sit for Civil Service Exam. Parents put in many years in a project “Raising Kid” for 20 years.

I was at that place where I had few goals but did not have patience to achieve them. And then I figured a way to escalate our patience! I will try to explain it through an example as follows: Consider that you want to grow a Mango tree. So, first, you will buy a Mango seed and sow it into ground. Then you'd water it daily for 10 min. After 1 month, you would see two small and cute leaves coming out from soil. You'd be happy and willing to water that tree for 20 min daily. Tree is growing without any trouble till now. Now comes the influence of ecosystem. Yes, pests enter the system. They start eating your lovely plant. What will you do now? Will you leave that plant thinking that it's all in the part of nature and let it die?

No, you apply insecticides. Yes, your plant has got it's last and lost cuteness. This process goes round and round. And after 8 years of continuous support for your plant, you can see the first Mango. Wow! your plant has become an adult now. Your goal is achieved. How did you concentrate on that little plant for 8 years? You must be some crazy badass to be patient for 8 years!!! Now comes the most interesting question: Were you really patient? I would say a huge and humongous Yes! But why can't you apply this to your studies or work or whatever? Here comes the actual truth: You did not concentrate on that plant for 8 years. Yeah, all my analysis till now is false.

Then what did you do 8 years? You were thinking about your family. You were thinking about your studies. You were sad. You were happy too. You were crying. And laughing too! At last, you were watering that plant for 10 min a day. You didn't even think it as some work! Yes, the truth and my trick is “You didn't even think it as some work”. Did you see? Don't think too much about the length of process instead think about the glory. Bruce Lee said and I quote, “Don't think, feel....it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!” Cheers!