PATIENCE

PATIENCE Great Wisdom T HE dictionary defines patience as exhibiting calm endurance in the face of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance. This however, is a technical definition of patience. There is high wisdom in patience, but it is absent from this dictionary definition. Being impatient means giving an emotional reaction to the situation. Such a response, in terms of the result, is a waste of time. If on the other hand, you save yourself from giving a hasty response, then that is patience. Such kind of patience gives you the opportunity to do ample planning before taking a step. In truth, patience is buying time to enable yourself to give a well-considered response to the situation. An impatient person can never give the right response to a situation. On the contrary, a patient person has the ability to give a proper response to the situation he finds himself in. Therefore, keeping patience is a way of buying time. For example, suppose someone crashes his car into yours and out of impatience, you may engage him in a fight. In this case, you are doubling the problem. This is because your fight would invite the police who would take you to the police station. On the other hand, if you do not get angry and speak softly with the person who collided with your car, the issue would be resolved without further aggravation. Anyone can give an impatient response to the situation, but only a wise person can give a patient response. o Patience is buying time to enable yourself to give a well-considered response to the situation. Negative Thinking Negativity is to follow impulse rather than truth.