How observing patience can bring order in our lives - an essay
There is no doubt that patience is a great virtue and those who adhere to it reap the obvious benefits. This essay is about the importance of patience in our working and actions and how it helps us bring more order to our lives.
Introduction
It is said that virtue is its own reward and this saying is very correct when we talk about patience and its usefulness in our lives. Good habits and virtues make one's life orderly and disciplined and then one can achieve those dreams for which one is longing and aspiring in one's life. Patience is one of those virtues which if observed and adhered in a proper manner bring many rewards with it and makes life simpler, orderly, and trouble-free.Basic human nature
It is true that due to increased consciousness levels and brain functions of higher orders, humans are considered the supreme species in the animal world. Still, they have some animal instincts residing within them in the most rudimentary ways but which come out at opportune moments like a flash of the light.
Due to the educational proficiencies and growing up in a social system, many human beings become knowledgeable and can attempt all sorts of jobs whenever encountered in their lives. As the consciousness level of humans is developed much, it is natural that they can think and act logically and rationally in many situations but sometimes due to the particular situation or circumstances they choose quick and hurried paths for some action or for carrying out a job. This quick approach to the tasks at hand sometimes brings disappointment and despair as the result is not favorable. Most of these setbacks are there because of the inherent hurriedness that is adhered to by many of us without properly thinking or pondering about the job to be taken up. Some of the examples of these hurried and quick eruptions are - reacting to others without understanding what they are telling, quickly negating others just for the sake of negating, make a hurried response to a situation, take steps without any homework, and many more like that which is nothing but a recipe for failure and mistakes. Why patience is required
When we take up a job or task and try to complete it quickly without doing proper homework and thinking, then many times we commit mistakes and fail in doing the job in a proper way. On the other hand, if we had given sufficient time in thinking about it and planning it meticulously in a patient way, then the chances of failures might get reduced significantly. Some people might think that adhering to patience will bring the speed of execution down and more time would be incurred in completing a task but it is worth it when we look at the final benefits out of adhering to the great virtue known as patience. It is not about incurring more time or less time in doing a job, it is actually the pondering part where one has to think about the pros and cons of doing things beforehand and then take a cautious and prudent approach to the task to avoid any hassles or difficulties while executing it. If one is interested in doing things logically and conclusively, then including the patience factor in the process is necessary for successful and good results. Importance of patience
Doing things hurriedly and in a haphazard manner will never be accepted as a good strategy and recipe to success in our lives. What is the use of doing efforts and hard work if the result is not commensurate to it? That is where adopting patience in our working and actions helps tremendously and becomes a guiding factor for the whole process ahead.
Let us take a simple example of working in the kitchen which is so common in our households. Suppose a person wants to learn some basic cooking and wants to try a dish. If he enters the kitchen without any homework and thinking, then soon he will create a mess in the kitchen and will be taking a thing out from one place and another from another place, and soon the disorder will increase to such a level that he will be confused and puzzled and in many cases will leave the kitchen to try that thing later sometime in his life. Why that turmoil happened is simply because he had no patience to think as to what he was going to do and what things will be needed for that and where they are located in the kitchen and how much time all that activity would be taking and whether he was having that much time in hand or not. So, if he considers all those things beforehand, he will be able to make a better decision as to whether it is the correct time to enter the kitchen and try that long-cherished desire to cook something oneself. A little planning would tell him that these are the ingredients needed and if they are not there then probably he had to change the dish he was planning or get the item from the nearby shop and then check the availability of everything before going ahead.
Planning is thus the crucial part of every activity and here only the maximum degree of patience is required. If a person is devoting some time to planning, then only one's chances of successfully executing a project increases. What holds good for the simple kitchen example holds good everywhere even in the big companies where large projects are conceived and executed.How patience brings order in our lives
Patience and discipline go hand in hand and if a person follows them, life becomes much easier and things start to fall in order. The ultimate aim of adhering to patience is to remove elements of haste and myopic actions from our lives. It teaches us the mantra of think before you act and ponder before you speak.
Let us consider a simple example in our lives where patience has the power to bring order in our lives. Whenever we go to catch a train or board a plane, we calculate some time and accordingly leave the house and try to avoid time at the railway station or airport but in doing those calculations, many people in their haste keep no margins for traffic snarls and other eventualities. The result is that they reach the station at the eleventh hour and then they have to run around and take that stress unnecessarily which could be well avoided by a little planning and reaching the place well ahead of the schedule. In today's digital world, there is no chance of getting boredom at any place as the internet is in one's pocket and why leave the house at the last minute when one can very well plan it say half or one hour earlier. We should have the patience to wait at the terminal even if we reach there a bit earlier. A good plan would help us to avoid all the inconveniences that we have been seeing people taking by reaching these places at the eleventh hour. Haste and unplanned action will always bring disorder in our lives and by keeping patience one can minimize those disorders.Conclusion
Patience is a virtue which helps us in planning our actions meticulously and by adhering to it we get sufficient time for thinking about the pros and cons of the task to be taken and can make better decisions in that regard. Further, it brings discipline and order in our lives and that is the great takeaway from adopting it in our lifestyle.
Patience is a real virtue. Our patience will definitely pay dividends. We should not be in a hurry for getting results for our efforts. Sometimes we want to get quick results for our efforts. In these hurried efforts chances of doing mistakes will be more and the expected results will not come. But if we have patience and wait for the outcome the results will be as planned.
When we assign some work to others, we should be patient and give the required time to the other person to complete the work. Instead of that in a hurry, if we follow up with him and show our impatience, the other person may become nervous and the chances of wrongdoings will be more. At the same time, the relations with the other person will also get spoiled. So if we are not patient enough our relations with other persons will also get spoiled. If we are impatient we will develop anger and stress. These will have a big say on our health. If we are having sufficient patience we will be definitely healthy.