Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a a muscle. Every day you need to work on it -- Eknath Easwaran
That makes me sound wise
lol --
well -- no -- I am not reading anything on spirituality -- just a quote site.
Patience is the virtue I have decided to work on this year
and I noticed this week
that I am very much deficient in this virtue
particularly in my car.
no -- I'm not "flinging the cheese" or anything.
but I have been giving other drivers a piece of my mind
um
outloud.
sigh
I do need to have more patience.
I need to take a breath
and allow others to do things in their own time
I need to be more gracious
and allow that other people are
on their own journey
and are not just trying to impede mine.
I need to be patient with myself.
and like a muscle.
I need to work at it every day
so
today
today I am going to be patient
mostly
well
I'm going to be more patient than yesterday
and that has to count for something.
I have learned how to deal with pokey drivers. I have this little mantra - "Thank you for knowing your limits and not endangering me by exceeding them." That sort of helps.
ReplyDeleteThe morons who cut you off on the highway, however?
I haven't figured out a mantra for them yet.
What I say to those morons is, I hope you die! But not taking anyone with you, of course.
DeleteAs for patience, I've had to force myself to be very patient this past year. My life went from dull and predictable to a whacked out nightmare, and then there's Master. And with him, I have to resist every urge to be my normal self. I have to just be there when he wants me, and not talk too much, and not ask a lot of questions, and not ask for anything at all from him. And when something needs to be said, I need to choose my words carefully, and edit them down to as few words as possible, but still be sure I'm communicating what needs to be communicated. I think being on Twitter for a couple years has helped a lot.
My thought for those that cut you off ... Go ahead and give that cop ahead something to do. Lol
ReplyDeleteI wrote a mantra and put it by my phone at work.
ReplyDelete1. Take a deep breath.
2. Smile.
3. Remember, you are talking to a PERSON about a THING.
I've had to get that through my head too...that people aren't necessarily trying to hinder me.
And you'd be surprised how quickly little ones will learn your lingo...a few months ago someone cut me off and i...working on my patience, just sighed....
ReplyDeletebut from the backseat, my sweet little daughter, aged 4 at the time...hollered..."MOVE YOUR ASS!!!"
and then her big brother took up the chant,
and i drove on, humiliated.
and very glad that it was winter and the windows were rolled up tight.
nilla