Patience

It takes strength to be patient in most cases. If not, maybe one is naturally adapt to it. To wait for certain life turns, it is not always easy. It is due to the thoughts, ideas, actions, and especially emotions we take upon while the process takes place.

For most, people tend to have a link of anxiety, anger, being upset, or simply annoyed resulting into frustration. This is because we all have some level of reaction. If we were told we were to be given a cookie, our first thought or question would be "when?". This is because we centralize the idea that we want the cookie (and for most, sooner). Why is this? Our instincts tell us we love the taste, the smell, and so on. Whether it comes sooner or later, a stoic person would focus on the fact that we will get the cookie either way and that nothing else matters for that fact about what will happen around or how they feel. 

I would assume for those who perceive life in a very stoic way, the people they see around who don't see life just as similarly as they do, rather over dramatize life seem to live chaotic if we're speaking about patience. When one is waiting for a promotion at work and they know they will be, why complain or gossip with coworkers or friends about how long it's taking until you're given that promotion by your boss? Instead, keep working and wait until you are told. With all the hard work you've done, there wouldn't be anyway you wouldn't get that promotion. Of course, if you'd have done something of the wrong choice, there will be consequences for not getting that promotion. This only makes the situation better because it not only shows maturity, but calmness. 

Just like us students here, we tend to get nervous, scared, or anxious before our grades come out. We tend to always ask teachers, "When will our grades come out?" and "Is this the grades our parents will see?" It is the emotions that follow. We would be scared and nervous because if one gets a bad grade in the class, they will not be happy or their parents would definitely not be happy. Instead, they would be miserable for some time before they decide how they would fix their grade somehow. Of course, again we are to focus that the grades are out and now, whether or not our grades are good or bad, the intension is to maintain those grades. If it's low, raise them. If it's high, maintain that wellbeing.

Although, because we are only human, we cannot be robots and set a certain "system" in us to easily endure pain, hardship, or be completely emotionless in order to keep moving on. In the case of patience, we cannot just wait. We are given are heart, which is technically one of the major organs keeping us alive, but also one of the softest parts of ourselves emotionally. To live a lifetime given, can we be strong enough to only see that "what's done is done" or question ourselves and what surrounds us to further learn?

“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny