...hate the wait

Although all of us hate to wait for things, we have to be patient in some things. When we are learning the knowledge, patience is needed. When the doctor is operating, patience is needed.

I used to be very impatient, but Life stepped in and forced me to begin practicing patience. Now, I practice patience very consciously - sometimes I succeed, most times I don't. I do find, that now I am mush more peaceful and calm and have actually become more productive as a result. I always think of many years ago in the early 2000s while I was teaching English to upper Intermediate Chinese and South Korean business students. We used to role model interviews so that they could get to grasp that kind of lingo/dialogue etc... What I found fascinating was that they had very different values to what the west did. Almost always, they were looking for PATIENCE above everything else. I asked why? (Knowing that I would have failed that interview!) The answer that really struck me was this: they said that everything else flows from patience...And look where these countries are now. Probably one of my bigger lessons. And after practicing it, I find that they told the truth. Patience is a virtue for a reason.

I was always told I was born impatient. I was two weeks early and never got over it. I do get impatient but not really with anything that isn't warranted. I like to be on time, or early, if possible, to things and when I have to wait on other people who then make me late, it frustrates me. I had a friend in college and it was just understood that if you needed her to be somewhere at a specific time, you told her half an hour earlier and hoped she wouldn't be more than fifteen minutes late. *shakes head*

As everything is getting faster, people seem to be more and more impatient. We want to stand in the fastest line at the supermarket, get nervous if we have to wait more than 5 minutes at the doctor. At work we are like robots doing the maximum in minimum time. I don't know if it has an affect on relationships, but may people are impatient with each other. We forget to stop sometimes enjoy the present time.

Some do think and act that way for the reason of technology. But for me, I must admit that sometimes I am not the a patient person. Because I have time, I do not like waiting for someone who is past beyond our meeting time. It is a time wasted for me. I could do a lot of things on that span of time he/she was late. Time is gold.

I think we should have the patience to do everything.With the society developing so fast.People are living a faster life.We often hate to wait someone.

I'm beginning to come to the all too sad realization that patience is really becoming an obsolete concept. At least it doesn't fit into the society and world that we live into today at all. So we either have to deal with the fact that people will be impatient or not deal with it, try and think that people are going to be and be grossly behind the times. I've come to expect lack of patience, I've had my moments I will admit, but it does tend to irritate me. Yet patience is one of the many things that does not fit into the world that we live in. There are just going to be times where some people are not going to really just wait around. It either happens now or some people are going to be rather annoyed to the point where they are annoying if that makes any sense. It is all go, go, go, with no end in sight, no way to deal with the lack of patience. That is just the nature of the world in 2012. Not much we can do about it, just go with the flow. Of course, it is almost amusing that I don't have patience for people who don't have a lot of patience. That is quite the paradox.

I feel guilty if i have benn do nothing "valuable" in a span.When i groww up,i find that it is more difficulr to slow down my step.I dont have part-time to share with my parents and chat with my friends as before.Everyone busy themselves with make money,however never consider why i make money?and hoe i use it? Is so sad!

Yes, I think people are still patient these days. There are many examples that can support that. One of them is waiting at a line at a water park or a theme park. Second is the DMV. All of the people wait for something they want for themselves or other around them. Like a father waiting in line to get a ice cream for his daughter.