PATIENCE - BFF #182
Patience, I have tons of it. Life is too short to allow minor inconveniences light my fuse and end up exploding. Impatiently waiting for something? If you are meant to have it, it will come. Life was not meant to be spent in a rush, nor is it meant to blow your stack over things you cannot change.
I have not always been like this. I would flip my lid and allow a fire to rise within me over the least little things. I couldn't wait for things I wanted, waiting in line at the store would set me off, and I'll be darned if I would allow someone to cut into the line when the traffic was backed up. I would get angry and bitter, usually over something so insignificant, and would act out my frustration.
All of the anger inside me finally came to a pinnacle and my life suddenly changed. I found my spirituality and through that I realized these small things I thought were so important meant nothing at all. Not one of them would stop the earth from rotating on its axis so why did I place value in such trivial things? If something isn't worth waiting for, then it is not worth having. Waiting in line anywhere has given me the opportunity to get acquainted with some very interesting people with whom I never would have spoken. I have decided to save my anger for appropriate times and let go of the small stuff. It isn't easy to change something so engraved in us for so many years, but with diligence you can make patience a habit and when you do, you will feel better and enjoy life so much more.
