Patience versus Impatience – whose side are you on?

       

     With majority of my loved ones belonging to the team called ‘Patience’, and very few with me on the side of ‘Impatience’, exploring this topic and wondering about the thought appeared extremely exciting. A father who appears as the undisputed captain of this team for several years now and an elder sister who is following him closely, my immense love for impatience and absolute affection towards haste prevented me from joining their peaceful influence. 

     While entire childhood was spent in convincing them about the benefits of impatience and devising ways to avoid their part of the story, marital union with much larger fan of the ‘Patience’ team has brought life to a full circle! As I exhibit my impatience yet again, and deal with peaceful people all around, this thought deserved adequate attention.

     Though I believe in the strength of peace, calmness, silence and maturity, immense patience towards every aspect in life is certainly impossible. While staying patient showers its own set of fruitful aspects, eagerness to accomplish a task or haste to complete a job can drive one towards the path of impatience. As major decisions in this journey called ‘life’ demand patience, understanding, willingness and preparation, our attitude of impatience can influence the outcome. Though hard work, efforts, dedication and practice are necessary inputs from our end; patience and trust for its completion are extremely essential too. As circumstances or situations may change their color at any moment, patience is the only shade that never chooses to leave.

      Patience imparts maturity to our character, offering enough time to think, contemplate, analyze and decide. While patience resembles a slow track that experiences every bit of the journey, impatience is the express route with tendency to over-speed. Impatience can never yield any desirable outcome as it clashes with the need for analysis. Be it a domestic activity or a workplace role, be it a leisurely adventure or a significant task, every domain of our life can be influenced by this attitude of impatience. By offering more time, aspect of patience ensures careful judgement. Belief in inner self and trust in one’s efforts fuel the successful journey of a patient individual. By investing more resources towards completion of a project, players of the patient team ensure success, satisfaction, happiness and content.

   Though impatience may sound as the villain of this story, my affection towards it certainly demands some justification. While I will never encourage anyone to incorporate this element in their own conduct, I was prompted to look at its brighter side. Impatience demands planning, fast execution, quick responses and quicker actions. Not relying on silence and stability, impatient conduct forces one to be on the toes. While this attitude has forced me to always stay prepared for several hours in advance, haste towards accomplishment and impatience towards completion have certainly acted as my best friends throughout!

    Striking a perfect balance between both these teams may prove beneficial. While some big decisions in life demand all possible investment of patience, certain time-sensitive acts may prompt the involvement of impatience.

    So, while you are still pondering about which side you have chosen finally, let me introduce you to the highlights of each team (this can make your decision process simpler)

Team A: PATIENCE

Highlights:

·         Involve themselves in thinking, contemplating, analyzing before framing a final decision

·         Silent, cheerful, happy and peaceful conduct

·         Belief and trust in self, confidence to achieve success

·         Realize the value of time and wait for it to spread its charm

·         Prevent panic, chaos, last moment confusion and invest in silent thinking

·         Look forward to the final outcome, yet enjoy every moment of the long journey

·         Make priorities according to the significance of every task

Team B: IMPATIENCE

Highlights:

·         Believe in quick actions and fast responses

·         Hope for immediate answers towards every query

·         Respect time and prepare well in advance

·         Stay away from deep thinking and invest in practical execution

·         Always equipped for action, while planning and packing in haste

·         Consider analysis as waste of time, trust in the power of trials and retrials.

        While it is impossible to wear patience or impatience as the only outfit for every occasion, it is essential to adopt a flexible approach and an understanding attitude. Adopting essence of patience can benefit in the long run as every task in the future may appear as peaceful and satisfying.

  So whether you choose to advocate patience or promote impatience; enjoy their influence, after all life is about trials, errors, experiments and retrials, over and over again!