Patience
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
It’s easy in such a crazy stressed world to lose sight of what is really important. To forget about the people around you and think only of what is happening to yourself. I feel as if each minute that passes, as each device you own becomes faster and faster, people become more and more impatient. Its as if the world has gotten itself into one dam big hurry. People have no patience anymore for anything or anyone. Why? Are we all too selfish to take a break and look around to see what is really happenning? To absorbed in the thoughts that it’s a small inconvienice to you and so losing your temper and having a whinge is going to get what you want all that quicker. I see it all the time in my work, while i’m out shopping even just driving. It’s surprising how much gratitude people will give you if you are patient.
Sometimes I think people need to just take a breath and just chill. So you wait an extra 5 minutes in line for a checkout, or arrive home 2 minutes slower than you would have if not stuck behind a car. Patience. Shit happens and getting worked up about it aint going to do you any good. In the grand scheme of things, all these little things are nothing.
