Let us start with a pondery1: has impatience ever benefited you? For example, what if you checked this website daily for the last two weeks, expecting to see something new or different? I said thirteen days would be taken off, and thirteen days were taken off. It honestly feels like I lived an entire lifetime within that timespan. That is the beauty of patience. You can simply go with the flow and let things unfold as they will. In the end, that is all that will happen anyway. We can resist the flow with impatience/impertinence, or we can learn to simply swim patiently through each and every moment that we face.
When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower of Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.
-Hannah Hurnard
Look at nature all around us. It has its different seasons for differing reasons. Do you see them? Can you explore them? We can mirror similar cycles in our own lives/lanes, if we so choose; we do not need to maintain a constant speed and style at all times; we can learn when to grow, and we can also accept when to let go of pieces that no longer serve us and our present needs. Not everything is a present. Even something that once was a present may have already served its full purpose and now no longer provides any value.
What was once wrapped up beautifully may now be warped badly. Patience can be powerful; you can listen and learn a lot amidst pristine periods of peaceful stillness. Timing is an essential element here. In order to live as optimally as possible, we should avoid doing the next best thing too early or too late. Otherwise, is it really the next best thing if it is not at the best time? Right on time is key. Timeliness is key, do you see? Some situations warrant rapid speediness. Other moments make us wait and practice patience.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather, it is “timing”; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
-Fulton J. Sheen
Your body and mind may resist those slower moments, at least initially, because we are conditioned to be constantly going and doing something. We have notifications popping up and sounds all around trying to grab our attention. Patience may easily be something that we are tested with most frequently. We craft and crave our ideas of how the world should work or how others should behave. How often do those crafts and cravings truly serve us and our innate nature, though? Should we wish for fantastical dreamscapes, or should we accept working with nature? Can we learn to flow with the current of life?
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you for your patience; it is good to be back :) <3
I am thankful for my patience as I grow and improve it patiently.
May your holidays patiently proceed pleasantly.
Maybe it is wise. Maybe it is dumb. Time will tell.
- I consider a pondery to be like a quandary except, instead of considering a problem, it is simply something for you to curiously ponder upon some. ↩︎