patience a virtue?The technical definition of patience is “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset,” according to Google.
The word “virtue” in its own right means “of high moral ground.”Does that mean being patient is a moral obligation?If so, I’m fucked.Patience has eluded me for years, becoming more distant over time, like besties from grade school that grew apart.
I try and try to be friends with patience, and we just cannot get along. Maybe I’m going about this the wrong way.Maybe having patience doesn’t mean staying still.Maybe having patience does not mean we are giving up.Maybe having patience does not mean we are hopeless.Maybe patience is not what we think it is.I used to think.
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