Patience or understanding............................

It depends on the person --- if i'm being bothered by a guy of my age then i wouldn't mind loosing my patience! When it comes to small kids,women and old aka elders then i would let them test my extremes *Good that i carry my ipod these days...can be handy you know* BIRLA!

Hi Saph! I would like to be a patient listener and will try to understand what the fellow in front of me wishes to convey. I tend to lose my patience, when someone ask to me 'understand' him/her quickly or to do a job within no time. I tell them it takes time for me to do a job or understand a thing, am a slow learner.

Good Day! Well for me to have a lot of patience and understanding, I just think that every time I got mad, I also get wrinkles that why I always smile and try my best to have patience and understanding. :

I believe that understanding is the key to everything. If you have understanding, you can almost always succeed. not everyone has has the gift of patience. this is something that sometimes needs to be learned. Understanding is the gift we can all achieve.

I am also not a patient person and I will try to understand others and won't let that person try out my patience.No one can compare patience because I am not patient enough to compare patience with others,so I am really not a patient person.

Hi, i wil try to understand the situation before i loose my patience. if the sitution is going out of control, i loose my patience. its very hard task to keep our patience for long. if any one have a good patience, they can understand. i think there will be less people like this. mostly professionally one can develop to be having patience, especially, like Doctors, Phychologists etc.,

All I do is listen and if I'm puzzled , I ask what did they mean. Then if they push a button , there is no more trying to understand , It is on!

You can understand others if they give you a chance. I'll try to do that, but if it's too much of a test for my patience, I'll just step away. Can't handle so much now a days.

I think I deserve an award. I am so patient with you that I become a patient!!!

I don't think I am patient enough. But I am considerate. I admit freely and openly, my flaws and deficiencies. I know I am not perfect and there is no way denying that. In the same way, I also believe that no one is perfect in this world. This is the single most important thing that helps me keep up my patience. How can I blame someone for having something that I have myself. I can't stand arrogance, but am I totally void of arrogance? I hate egotists, but am I completely free of it? They have flaws, but unfortunately, I have the same flaws that they have. I can't ask my children to quit smoking if I am a smoker myself. Understanding of the fact that human beings are fundamentally imperfect makes me more patient and kind to them.

Hi Saphrina, If Understanding is good.... you know me ... Do I need to mention it?

Hi dear, i feel both should have. If we have a patience then we will try to understand others with the patience. Understanding someone always makes us to keep us cool and calm, no hurry or immediate reactions. Some times this will cause a lot. So understand and patience is must. I will try the both because i am a woman. Woman should have a patience as well as understanding nature then half of the problems will solve. Have a great day.

Personally ramesh(hey its me) is a very cool person. But sometimes she is becoming so angry on his friends, you know why, because he wants to know or to express some feelings. Some he looses something. But again he re-gain them. But my personal openion is, patience is not worked all the time. Suppose we are friends from the past ten months, i can openly tell to you anything(happily, sadly, angrily, or with any other emotion), but i can't do this with any another new one. (indirectly i am opened my feeling...hahaha)

Hi also, For me, understanding and patience are somewhat similar to each other. We can be more patient if we try to understand others' opinion, feelings or thought. I can say I'm a patent person because I could easily get in someone's thought. I grew being calm all the time. I rarely lose temper because of someone's deeds that I hate or the like. I learned being calm and patient when I was a child. I lost temper with a close playmate and fought with him. From that day, he didn't meet me anymore until now. I saw the huge consequence of having no patience. Good Day to You!

Hi Sweetie For me it is both understanding and patience, but I do have a lot of patience if I am honest it can take a long long time for someone to break them lol but when they do by goodness they do not want to be close to me as I will blow

As a Zen practitioner, patience is a challenge that us Zen practitioners are challenged with. When we sit in meditation for long periods, this is a big issue for us, for we are sitting just watching the mind and experiencing our feelings. This helps when we are interacting with other people, to allow them to be exactly as they are, even if they do get trying and irritating. _Derek

Actually I have the bad habit of trying to make the other person understand ME....

Hi , Saphy. Patience or understanding, huh? Well, I'd rather take the latter, dear. It is easier fr me to understand than to get hold of my patience for a longer time. It can easily snapped. But, what I do realized was patience and understanding go hand in hand. I need to be patient to learn how to understand, patient to myself not to go against the will to understand and patient t5o understand further more. See, dear, I really can not fully understand without being patient.:)

Trying to understand is better, but not always easy. I know one guy who I could provide literal proof of something to - that would hold credence in court, and he would still deny it's application if it weren't his original view. There isn't a lot that you can do with that sort!

Patience is the patient receiving the existing trials does not mean we have to stay alone but we should also try to do my best. Understanding is a matter of our feelings to know what is experienced by someone. So we should be able to make 2 of these things become more useful and better ... for someone who is near us or we meet people who would love to hang out with us