It All Boils Down To...

If my twenty years here on this beautiful planet have taught me anything, it’s that it all boils down to patience.  Nothing is more important than or as effective as solid patience. But it’s the hardest thing to have in a world where we praise the thin, rich, and famous. Everybody wants the quick get-rich-schemes and nobody wants to take the time to go out to the gym these days. It’s all about the newest diet pill that will have that stomach flattened and two-piece ready in less than two weeks. Working hard for the money? A thing of the past. Let’s all be rappers and actors, toss our integrity to the win for a little bit of change and a house in the hills. All in the name of impatience. ....

Why can’t we all just hold out until our dreams come true? They say good things come to those who wait, so, why the rush? I must admit that I own very little patience and I find it increasingly hard to get some when I can see my dream, almost touch it even, but I have no way of ever making it come true. Or at least that’s what I trick myself into believing because things aren’t happening as quickly as I would like them too. Maybe I’m not supposed to write a best-seller until I’m thirty years old with lots more life experience under my belt.  Maybe we aren’t supposed to live together until we get married. If these things are meant to happen, they will, in their own time. So, why on Earth can’t I stop trying to rush things along?....

I feel this sense of urgency every morning when I wake up. As if I didn’t just turn twenty, but forty instead. Yes, the years have flown by, but there are so many more to be lived. So much to be learned, earned, taught, shared, seen, and heard. But because I’m so impatient, I lead a feeble existence that doesn’t allow me to stop and smell the flowers. Not because I’m moving at too rapid a pace, but because I’m so focused on speeding things up that I can’t see anything else. I feel like I’ve put a new spin on the term “tunnel vision.” ....

But I do know that patience is a virtue and I need to get more of it. My life will be a lot easier to live if I sit back and enjoy the ride.  I’m quite sure there’s a reason things are going so slow. Some lesson I’m supposed to learn, some person I’m supposed to meet. Things that can’t happen if I don’t slow down, take a breath, and stop to check the scenery every now and then. This is not to say that I’m not going to arrive at my destination, I’m just going to arrive on time, when I’m fully capable of dealing with everything it entails. And maybe that’s what is best. Ya’ know?....

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