The worst habit that damages us is our inability to understand that patience is
the key to a lot of things including early success.
We lose so many abilities in our lives just because of our impatience.How many times in our lives we have taken a new thing and at the start we are star-eyed about it. The new thing is fun and brings out a lot of things out of us. Say, for example, coding; at the start, at the basic level, its all fun and easy. But, as soon as the challenges start to creep up, we start to lose interest in them. Although, it may also be the result of an unprecedented start, without acquiring necessary textbook knowledge, but my point is, impatience here also plays the same role. Instead of acquiring the necessary theoretical knowledge, we jumped on the coding section, without being equipped with the necessary troubleshooting knowledge.
Had we been patient enough, things would have been different.
Another example that we commonly see, is about joining gym. We start expecting as soon as the first bulge of tightened muscle we see.
What we need to understand that things
don't work that way. One must toil a little to achieve something. Although its
known by all of us and we do keep it in mind. But somewhere down the line,
right between joy and the first roadblock, this particular thought becomes
blurry.
To look on the positive side, these
acts of impatience sometimes define and prioritize our passions. There are some
things in life, we keep coming back to. They keep crossing our path, until we
accept or discard it completely.
It is only when we are too passionate
about something that we give it all and achieve it. In my perspective, life is
all about achieving milestones, however small it maybe. And the smaller the
aim, the better. Small achievements or goal completion give us that something
motivation to keep us going in our monotonous lives. Don’t we love it, when we
have a small but surprising bonus, or the happiness to beat out our rival in a
cricket match, or for the nerds, the completion of a level that had been a pain
in the arse for so long. So, basically what I want to say is that patience is a
key stakeholder and companion in our ‘Harvey Dent’ or ‘Two Face’ phase.
So, the actual and only roadblock that
we face is our will to submit to the circumstances to give up or to dust ourselves
up and keep up the fight. Even though it may become boring, but it won’t be
fruitless.
In the words of Paolo Coelho
“You can think of yourself as a victim
and suffer throughout your life or you can think of yourself as an adventurer
who is always ready to move on and experience the best out of life.”
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