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Patience: the quality of being patient is the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
This, I think, is the best description I have ever read. It explains the frustration and annoyance that patience breeds within us.
It is exasperating!
Take, for example, Christmas. As a child, this is probably the first real test of our patience. You know its coming. The city streets are decorated, and shop windows are full of a million ideas for our Christmas list to Santa. We write that list, post it / give it to parents to forward on for us / pray for it…. Then we have to wait. And wait.As adults, we have to wait patiently for everything – The end of the working week; pay days; the bus or train; traffic lights when we’re in a rush to get somewhere; the phone call or text from the person we want to hear from most; the queues; to be served at the bar; for a real person to pick up the phone while listening to a pre-recorded bitch tell us that our call may be recorded…
Our patience is tested every day.
My patience is wearing very thin at the moment. There are so many things in my life that keep me occupied and busy, but there’s this niggling scratch positioned perfectly just between my shoulder blades that, for love nor money, I can’t reach to scratch. Of course, it’s not a real itch. It’s unreachable because it’s inside. It emanates from the gut, working its way through my nerve endings until I have the urge to scream out loud. My new acronym. SOL. Scream Out Loud. Not the beer.
To all of those people out there who make us wait, I say, stop it.
Anticipation – something similar to patience, but so much more fun! It’s exciting, positive, exhilarating. Its makes you smile. Patience makes me frown. I want to be filled with anticipation. I’d love the person on the end of the phone to be full of life and joyful! To make me forget all of that waiting, to know straight away that it was time very well spent...
Reality sucks.
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