Patience is a Worthy Virtue
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I was once waiting in line in a grocery store and a woman about three, four feet ahead of me was losing her patience. She just couldn’t wait until her turn. It occurred to me that patience is a worthy virtue. It’s not given to everyone and unfortunately, some people are more angry than they are patient. Anger is the direct consequence of losing your patience and it’s precisely because we don’t have tolerance for something or someone that we get mad.
Why would you do that? Why would you act this way? The more patience you have, the less irritation, anger, and rage you’ll experience. This isn’t to say that anger is bad. But you should never put up with the exploitation or the abuse of your patience in regard to the health that you are wanting in yourself of what you should be doing. There’s virtue in anger, not a lot, but there is some when it comes, for instance, to injustice of any sort; but when you are angry, you’re carrying the burden while the other person is out dancing. That’s an old Irish proverb, interestingly enough. (more…)
