Patience peace and joy part two

PATIENCE IN PERSPECTIVE —SALVAGING  PEACE AND. JOY

So today I wanted to sort of conclude  my thoughts on patience, however, I realized that it’s going to take another day and my wanting to be “done” will have to wait.  

Of course (and I’ve said this before or Tom Petty said it—the waiting is the hardest  part—oh well too bad).  So a lack of patience is in fact an abundance of. Wanting what you think should happen to happen a little sooner.  I started to think about this a bit. Yesterday and will  expand on this. In just a bit.  For now, I want to repeat two things from yesterday.  I truly believe every dream has its time and that things happen exactly when they are meant to happen and I repeat that to myself frequently.   Do I ever get the feeling “this shouldn’t be happening to me or to them or to you right now?”  Yes...I told you I’m impatient and am working on it.  Would I change some of the choices I have made—no I’m perfect, modest, and  your check is in the mail.  Insofar (wow how do like that  50 cent. Word? Things go I usually work on the things I can and only temporarily obsess  over the things  I think I should be able to do, but haven’t yet.  sometimes, I decided. That yet has to turn to ever..like I will never. Do this or that and ironically  patience or the lack there of is a big. Help in making that determination.  If I am making progress toward something, even if it is little steps, I tend. Not to get impatient and if I’m working hard but making no progress I usually. Determine that no amount of. Patience or impatience is going to fuel my progress and I turn to other priorities.  So “patience” becomes an indicator.   anyway, understanding your level of patience can be valuable no matter how frustrating game it is to focus on from time to time.  

Okay moving forward... I hear a lot of people talking about  how social media and the internet have.  Trained us to be impatient and seek immediate gratification.  Well, maybe, but  I would say social media also gathers our attention. To a diverse  set of  happenings and slows us down long enough to consider  that the world has an incredibly wide  range of possibilities.  We sometimes say “young people today....” Well young people don’t own places like Target who already is  releasing it’s e54 page Black Friday /Christmas sale add.  Other stores  are already having. Pre-black Friday sales and they are not just for. Or because of  our youth.  So let’s so a little  patience in  pointing a finger at the root causes of impatience shall we.  

Don’t get me wrong... I have no beef with businesses trying to  gain customers by lowering prices, but don’t be covering up  Thanksgiving, after all my family had some of its most joyous and dysfunctional moments before the Black Friday  phenomenon.  I’d sure like my current family to have the same change to do the silly stuff that  my grand nephews and such have a chance to  tell stories about.  Should we  ever push hard for things to happen faster than they seem to be going on their own.  Well I suppose if you lived in New York City in the 1880’s around the holidays you might have an argument.  

You see in the 1880s it is estimated that. There were traffic jams made up of  some or most of the 150,000 horses  in the city and these horses  produced. An average of 22 pounds of  droppings daily.  Talk about  a traffic jam that stinks...now there’s something you might lose some patience over (thanks GK and today’s Writer’s Almanac  for that visual).  

Now I want to  wrap up things for. Today so I’ll  offer this. Challenge and  provide the start of my answer to it... and continue it tomorrow....

Here’s the challenge.. if you are reading this try to identify  three things  that you  had happen in your life after being impatient—One that worked out like you thought it might—One that didn’t—and one that is in progress.  

I’ll start with one that didn’t  work out the way I thought...but turned out okay.  

I started  college as a computer. Science/math major and this was in the punch card era...if you don’t know what that is look it up because you’ll just shake your head and maybe appreciate what your elders. We’re crazy and patient enough to  plow through.  In working on my second programming  assignment I wrote out the 271 lines of  code needed to. Complete the task at hand and  went to the  lab to complete the task of building the card stack by  punching out the cards needed for each line.  In a few hows—like five or six—I finished the task and put the cards in order in  my card box and carried them into the  next room  in order to have the cards run through the compiler and then the computer would  carry out the required task.  Well as it happened, I missed the nine PM. Closing time so  I had to take the cards back to my. Residence hall for the night.  About eight steps outside the  computer building I looked up to see  a fellow student walking past and slipped on some ice.  Well of course cards went flying and it was a windy  late January night so cards flew pretty much everywhere in a 40 foot  range.  I may have been a good computer  programmer and  maybe a creative person who used that type of knowledge. All my life, but  my patience ran out that night in the middle of a dark campus and the decision was made.  

Well more. About that tomorrow... for now believe that every dream  has its time and  everything happens exactly when it is supposed to... and now is when I’m supposed to stop writing. For now.  Peace...