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When You Want to Learn Patience…But You Want to Learn it RIGHT FREAKING NOW!
Patience is Not Always a Virtue
We all get impatient from time to time.
Whether it’s a traffic jam and you’re already running late, or you get upset with your kids for taking too long to get ready for school.
Patience is a skill that is a challenge to learn, if you don’t already have the skills built in you. Some people are taught patience from a young age but many people have never been able to figure out how to practice it.
IMPATIENCE can be stressful to others and it can be contagious.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. Joyce Meyer
Imagine yourself sitting in the passenger seat with an impatient road-rager. You come up behind a slow moving vehicle and the driver beats on his horn, flashes his lights and yells obscenities through the windshield. “Get the hell out of my way! Learn to drive! “F**king idiot!”
How does that make you feel, as the shotgun rider?
Myself, I feel agitated, uncomfortable and scared that the driver will do something risky, out of his impatience. Maybe he will try and pass the slow…
