In praise of patience

As we’re getting on the road today for Europe, we know that there’s a lot of waiting included in this particular package involving a significant need for patience. Patience is a subject I want to develop in future blogs because it’s charged with important meaning and has such a strong impact upon our lives. Patience seems to be one of these qualities that flourish with age, when less issues are at stake and when it’s easier to be more relaxed in the way we look at life. In addition, waiting patiently is a quality that generally pays off handsomely, unless of course one happens to be in a building in fire, but outside of extreme situations like this, patience gives us the necessary window of time to grow ideas, discover extra options and provide our creativity enough time to accomplish some productive work. Depending on how we look at it, life is both short and long and while it’s hard to dismiss the speed at which time goes by, it’s also amazing to watch the various elements that we’ve been able to grow to astonishingly huge proportion over the years and with the right dosage of patience; it just works just like compounded interests; if you don’t watch them too much, they’ll become enormous!