ONE OF THE PATIENTS

PATIENCE is

-noun     

1.the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation,annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss oftemper, irritation, or the like.

2.an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness orannoyance when confronted with delay:

3.quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence.

Here are articles I've read from the internet about PATIENCE.

Almost no one has the patience to wait for anything or to think about the human problems and try to understand them. However, patience is indispensable in our life. 

Patience can only be relief for the problems that cannot be solved or that need time and it is a natural necessity that has also a very important philosophical meaning.Without time, we cannot prepare and create anything; nothing can be developed or properly studied, nothing can grow and nothing can happen. Time is part of our life and it is necessary for everything. Therefore, we must have the patience to wait until all the necessary aspects of reality get developed and arrive up to the point we were expecting. 

If we try to skip several steps because we want to see the results of our efforts quickly, we will not prepare anything in a solid and consistent manner; instead, our results will be fragile and ephemeral that will last only for a very limited period of time and whose quality will be quite inferior. 

Good work is done with patience and with several verifications, until it comes to the right point. 

A flower cannot grow earlier than it is supposed to, an animal cannot protect itself or have the velocity and the power of an adult from the first days of its life. Similarly, a human being cannot learn how to talk or do several things with hands before the mind and body are ready for these actions. This is the natural process of life. If we desire balance and happiness we have to respect it, otherwise we will only cause distortions and damage with our impatience. 

Patience and tolerance towards human mistakes are indispensable too, if we wish to be sensitive and sensible. Nobody is perfect and nobody knows everything. 

If we keep this statement in mind all the time, we will always be wise. Instead of arguing and complaining about other people's behaviour and mistakes, we'll try to understand their real problems and find ways to help them. 

How many times have we almost lost hope, when finally something unexpected happened to change our life's course, saving us from despair? We have many such examples in the history of mankind. 

We have also many examples of impatience, intolerance and precipitation, such as suicides and other drastic actions that cannot be corrected later. 

So, be careful, be wise and wait.

When the necessary time passes, everything will change and acquire the shape you desire. Give your credibility to the necessary period of time for everything and believe in a better result in the future, when people will be mature enough and all your efforts will finally approach the strong structure of life that you require.

Why is patience IMPORTANT?

1. Patience is important because we all must come to terms with the fact that many things won't happen as soon as we would like them to.

What you must realize is that your unhappiness is a choice.

Some things in life get better the more you wait.

It will remove the incentive act rashly. If you sit back and think before acting, you may realize that there is an alternative solution that would benefit you more. The longer you wait, the more you will be able to control your emotions so that you can think rationally.

2. Patience is very important in life because there are so many things that take time to develop for us to experience in a positive way. Of course we want everything right here right now, but that is not always the way  it works. 

The good things in life take time. Sometimes we come into life for the mere experience of pain and suffering. Where we come from originally, we are always in love and experience great bliss, so sometimes when we come here we spent a great portion of our lives suffering and we wonder why. The reason is because pleasure isn't as enjoyable without the pain, so we have to be patient and endure our lives and accept our situations to be able to experience the bliss that we so rightfully deserve.

If we try to make something happen, we put a lot of stress on ourselves. Life is not about living in the future or in the past. Life is about accepting the present moment. Patience is probably the biggest lesson for man to learn because with infinite patience, we are infinitely merciful and accepting and forgiving. With unlimited patience we can accept any circumstance and are truly free. We are in need of nothing and are happy just to be as we are. 

Once we develop our patience and are in need or want of nothing, we find ourselves with everything and lack nothing. Patience usually comes through a lifetime of refinement and suffering, or through spiritual discipline and education.

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Why am I writing these down?

Simple. I just realized I lack PATIENCE in life. As I was browsing posts from Tumblr yesterday, I saw these lines and decided to reblog it. 

I asked for PATIENCE and God placed me in a SITUATION where I was forced to WAIT. 
I shared these lines with my friends (Rei and Kimie) as we were walking from school. Rei told me something I never realized when he heard the lines. What he told me was... "Maybe God knew that what you lack in life is PATIENCE...and that is why he is testing your PATIENCE in something that you really want to get/achieve."

That was a BIG REALITY CHECK for me. I never thought of that. How smart Rei was when he uttered that. :))

And as I was sitting inside the bus, I just can't help but smile. I smile tons of times because I never thought of that. I never thought that I lack patience and the test is here! How grateful I am to have friends like them who'd shake my  head once in a while. How grateful I am to see what's lacking in me. How grateful I am to experience tests in order to learn from it. How grateful I am to have HIM beside me...reminding me of what I lack. Well, PATIENCE is INDEED a VIRTUE that I MUST APPLY.