Patience, The Art Of Knowing How To Wait

Patience is not exactly one of the crops that this society cares the most .  However, being impatient brings us suffering and dissatisfaction, since it does not allow us to enjoy because we are always thinking about the future and, when it comes, it is rarely enough because we keep thinking about the next future.

Patience is a necessary attitude to live in the here and now, enjoying the present moment, living it, feeling it and being aware of it. For this, it is necessary to strengthen the attitudes that center us in each moment we live.

Life at a hectic pace

“Time is money” is a motto that tells us that there is no time to lose. It seems that we have been programmed to do and do, without allowing ourselves to stop, because we lose time, and perhaps money. This makes us live at a frenetic pace, exceeding the limits of health.

This dynamic is becoming something that is destroying us, since we cannot accelerate the rhythm of life and its times. Although we want to go faster, everything has its rhythm and, therefore, we will live frustrated and suffering for what we have not yet achieved, instead of enjoying what is within our reach.

We do not know how to wait, we have been taught to run, to live with stress and with deadlines on our heels. Therefore, we do not have time to wait to meditate on a decision, or a result, we want everything to be fast, even if it means losing a great opportunity for our life or making mistakes.

“I want it now”, the antithesis of patience

We have turned our society into the world of “Now”. We cannot wait for tomorrow, or to get home, or to see a person … Everything tells us that we have to solve it now and we end up doing things “Now”, in a little premeditated way, as a way to free ourselves from anxiety.

We talk or send messages when we walk, drive or even when we are having coffee with someone because we have not been taught to wait and technology makes it easy for us to do it. At all times we are communicated, located, without times in which we are simply not for the world but for ourselves.

Society cultivates impatience, frenetic pace, stress and we let ourselves go without considering the consequences of this, until it arrives. He thinks that at some point we will be flooded with the feeling of not having lived for ourselves, because perhaps we have done it for “others”, for the “system” or the “company”.

In addition,  we will experience the physical and mental consequences of not knowing how to wait. Illness and personal and interpersonal conflicts will appear, since not everything is as we want and others will not always be able to make things easier for us “Now”.

Live from the waiting room

We can live from patience, knowing how to wait for things to happen naturally, without forcing them, without pressure, and on many occasions without looking for them. Every day is going to dawn, for this we have nothing to do, except to enjoy that moment and, while we wait for it to happen, we will enjoy the rest of the things that we already ordered and that we have quickly forgotten in the post of the next wish.

To cultivate patience, it is necessary to  slow down, focus on the present and live it consciously. Maintaining the security and tranquility that there will be a future, provided that we accompany it with good healthy practices and good attitudes.

Patience allows us to live life from patient activity. We get  going, we keep moving forward and we accompany life, adjusting to the moment and the rhythm of it. It is about not pretending that it is otherwise, but about knowing how to wait and remain calm, so that things happen when they have to.

Be patient, let it flow

Letting things flow does not mean, “sit and watch life go by.” Flowing with life means that we make choices and with them we resign, we mark a course like the one that marks a direction on the map to walk. And we are walking at the healthy pace that we need, that is, from calm, without trying to arrive in just one day. It is about not standing still, but walking at a leisurely pace.

Being patient is knowing how to wait for opportunities to come. It is also knowing how to take advantage of them from the present moment in which they occur, neither before nor after. To be patient is to observe life and learn from it, at the rhythm that natural rhythms mark us.