A virtue I need to work on (6/11/14)

Patience is a virtue, and one that I am in short supply of. I think this goes back to my time in the hospital where I put such a luxury on time. You can walk the halls and see the various different patients that are all quietly fighting their own unique battles and if you look hard enough you can almost see time slipping away.

Patience really is just a factor of time. You’re sitting at the kitchen table going over the same homework for three hours, and you lose patience because there are so many other ways you could be spending your time if you weren’t continuously hashing over the same material.

However, I discovered the way to build this virtue. I spent two hours in the pool with a local Kiwanis club teaching young kids how to swim. You build patience because those kids are bouncing around like miniature Tasmanian Devils and are barely listening to a word you say. They could be four legged fish in less than a week if they would listen to the coaching they got, but if that was the case then the adults who spend two hours a day four days a week for three weeks wouldn’t have the opportunity to build patience.