Are we all in too much of a hurry these days? Is patience a thing of the past? As Kabir says, Dheere Dheere Re Mana, Dheere Sub Kutch Hoye Mali Seenche So Ghara, Ritu Aaye Phal Hoye Slowly slowly O mind, everything in own pace happens Gardner may water a hundred buckets, fruit arrives only in its season
I have no patience what-so-ever. I never have. I want things done NOW If I get everything done NOW, I have time to do the stuff I want. If my family gets everything done NOW, we have time to do fun stuff. If I do everything NOW, I never have to remember what I haven't done.
Probably. The guy behind me at the market yesterday almost had a meltdown because the checker had to do a price check on someone's item. And driving in traffic can be a whole other war. I think people get impatient when they take their eyes/thoughts off of what is really important in life. Patience is a virtue. Many of us need more of it. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
[Very slowly] Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep While riding in my Cadillac What to my surprise A little Nash Rambler was following me About one third my size The guy musta wanted to pass me up As he kept on tooting his horn I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep [Slowly] I pushed my foot down to the floor To give the guy the shake But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind He still had on his brake He musta thought his car had more guts As he kept on tooting his horn (beep beep) I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep [Normal speed] My car went into passing gear And we took off with gust (whoosh) Soon we were going ninety Musta left him in the dust When I peeked in the mirror of my car I couldn't believe my eyes The little Nash Rambler was right behind You'd think that guy could fly Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep [Quickly] Now we were doing a hundred and ten This certainly was a race For a Rambler to pass a Caddy Would be a big disgrace The guy musta wanted to pass me up As he kept on tooting his horn (beep beep) I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep [Very quickly] Now we're going a hundred twenty As fast as I can go The Rambler pulled along side of me As if we were going slow The fella rolled down his window And yelled for me to hear "Hey buddy how do I get this car outa second gear?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg
But aren't you reserving your patience for the fun afterwards while drudging the chores out of the way?
^ It's not so much the employee but the unrealistic ritual of hanging around waiting for an inanity to complete.
Yes...they are people too. Just because they make $7.50 an hour doesn't make them less of a person. How elitist of you. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
See, the trouble with that eloquently rustic passage is that it can't very well be juxtaposed against the hurly-burly and a bureaucratically dominant civic lifestyle. As I said above, it's those unrealistic and pesky inane modern "procedures" that keep us waiting like worms on a hook.
when i get a job it will be in retail. but coporate america has set up a system where it is expected that you disrespect retail employees. and yes i would because i have friends who work in retail
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. Brian Adams Patience is the greatest of all virtues. Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC) A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Dutch Proverb Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses" There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. George Jackson (1941 - 1971) We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) The fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989 There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. Richard Rybolt Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD) Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts" Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Rudens Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
They get you when you wait. I think that it is 'those unrealistic and pesky inane modern "procedures" that keep us waiting like worms on a hook' that can clearly and uncomfortably point out the meaninglessness of one's life - this is how waiting becomes so difficult to bear. If one is just busy and running around all the time, never noticing what is really going on, then life might even appear meaningful. But when that run is brought to a halt -like when having to wait in line at the store- then absurdity can hit with full force. And patience is absolutely necessary to look and perhaps see beyond that.
You are averse to procrastionation. Being averse to procrastination is not the same as not having patience.
I am so telling my family that. I have been raised to think I was impatient. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! My Mom even had Patience is a Virtue cross stitched and hung in my room.
