Cultivating Patience in an Impatient World

Have patience, all things are difficult before they are easy. - Saadi

Do you consider yourself to be a very patient person?  If so, then have you evaluated yourself honestly? Have you analyzed whether were preoccupied with this page taking too long to load or why you were worried about someone writing such a long message to you when they could have written it in a fewer words? If this sound like you, then you should begin to reassess how impatient you have become.  If this sounds like your current situation, then it’s time for you to learn to be more patient in this impatient world.

Impatience is defined as being unwilling to wait; intolerance with anything that causes delay or hinders desired results. Although we usually blame external forces for causing our impatience, we have to take responsibility for creating it ourselves. Yes, the world we live in does bow down to the god of fast everything, but that doesn’t mean we have to do it too. We create and cultivate a great deal of our impatience from within ourselves. These are just a few ways we do that on a daily basis.