Patience

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What is patience to you? Within a moment of thought, in silent pondering, what, to you, is patience? Take your eyes off the screen for five minutes, and think about it before you continue.



Is it good? Take sometime to ponder before you read on. Think on it before you go on with this long little entry. Give yourself five minutes; preferably more.



Is it within you? Do you live a patient life? Or is impatience the virtue in your life? Seek within yourself. Do you have what you would call patience? Once again, meditate on this. Find out for yourself, do you have patience in you? Another five minutes of thought here would do very well. More might help too.



Every moment in your life, every action you take, is a testament. Proof of patience. What do your past choices and actions say about you? Is patience abound, or absolutely lacking? Once again, I ask for another five minutes of your time for reflection.



You may have realised by now, how much of a role this silent virtue may have played in your life by now. The question is, was it even essential? Did it play a vital role? Could it have made everything better? Or did this "patience" just made things worse? Yes. You guessed it. Another five minutes of thought.



I know. All this thinking, is probably a total waste of time. We all have better things to do, don't we? Perhaps. What do you think? I'll give another minutes to decide. If you've lost your patience in this meaningless read, then by all means, spend your time on other things. Who am I to force you to do otherwise?



If you're reading this, I assume that you still have a thread of patience in you to continue on. I suppose by now you've concluded upon what patience is, whether or not it is within you, and how it has affected your life so. Would I be correct to say such?

Perhaps. But I ask of you this, look at another person, and judge him/her. Is that person there, a patient man/woman? Have you come to a conclusion? Now, how long did it take for you to come to an answer? Five minutes? Take some time to ponder on that.



Hmmmm. If you had read and spent the minimal five minutes I had asked of you for every single query, I'd assume you'd spent at least 30 minutes of your life thinking. Was that a lot to ask of a person? 30 minutes of thought, before you came to a conclusion (or perhaps none at all) upon whether or not, that person you had chosen to judge upon, was a patient man/woman.

If we all had that patience to endure this tedious process of judgement, the world would be a better place, wouldn't it? But then again, five minutes of thought is too much to ask of a person. That time would be better spent elsewhere. Wouldn't you agree? You have five minutes to think on it.

As for those of you who skipped all that thinking and just leapt on to the next read, I'll only ask you for five minutes now to think about this. Were you being patient when you skipped all that thinking and just idly leapt down the next paragraph?

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago - Charlotte Perkins Gilman