PATIENCE; TRULY A VIRTUE

Funny how the youths are less patient when it comes to matters of life when the reverse should be the case.

We forget quickly that time still remains our biggest ally.

We have been asked by the famous poet Rudyard Kipling in his poem "IF" to fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, but we tend to forget while busy trying to maximize our time during the day that tomorrow provides us the chance to have another go at life.

We forget that there is a miracle called tomorrow, and next tomorrow, and a week after, and a month after, and even still, a year after.

We forget to use time as OUR army in the battle of life. We seem to instead be waging a war against time. It is true that time waits for no one and that bad things happen suddenly, but on a scale, the probability is really slim you know. Moreover, the average life expectancy has not overnight been reduced to 30 years or 40 years.

Time still remains our biggest ally. The pigs and dogs and the cats cannot understand this, as they only live in the now. But we humans can. We have been given the luxury of a broader perspective; the here and there, the near and far, the watch and wait. Dual optics that allow us to see in stereo...but only the patient man utilizes this luxury.

It was a wise man that said, "a patient man is always richer than the impatient one even if the patient man has less money."

What he meant of course was, the patient man can always afford to wait. The patient man is never desperate. The patient man has time to spare while the man in a hurry is always on the verge of bankruptcy as far as time is concerned.

What are we doing today out of lack of patience?

Are we gaining wealth now but losing in the integrity bank because of impatience?

2.) Are we making constant withdrawals in our relationship bank because we fail to look at the broader perspective? "Oh! I am too busy to have your time (of a loved one) right now"...sounds familiar?

3.) Or do we pursue our own schemes and easily forget our promises therefore losing in the trust bank? Hmm...how soon we forget that trust is also currency.

If these questions matter to us, let's do well to have an audit today.

If it doesn't, just ignore...life really is a choice. Who knows what is right anyways. Different philosophies; I am telling you, if the best representative of each philosophy comes around and expressly defends his philosophy, you may be swept off your feet, especially if you are not well grounded. So, who knows what is right anyways...but I think that is the beauty of life - discovery and rediscovery.

Anyways, I really do believe patience is a virtue. The biggest treasure patience gives us and mankind is COMPASSION.

If you look well enough, you will see how, in virtually all facets of life, patience equates compassion.