Patience doesn’t matter too much

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I call myself patient, but from other people’s eye, I’m never patient. Because I’m always the person want to get it done today if not yesterday, it’s hard for others to believe that I’m anywhere close to the word patience. I know, but I try not to over think me vs they like conversation. I believe it’s entirely wasting of time.

But it’s also hard to believe that I can prepare and wait for two years to come up a book idea, and then spend six month to a year to write it. I never surprised myself that I can sit and write stuff, but I have never imagined that one day I can write a book and publish it, nor that people might possibly want to read about. I never have doubt in myself but at the same time I never see this coming.

Nevertheless, patience apparently have different meaning in different context even for the same person, even at the same timeframe. Personality-wise, I start to remove this word “patience” from the characteristic of defining us.

Here’s why.

We are not patient in general

I found out in general human is not patient species. We have needs to be met in daily basis. Babies have this impatience feature painted all over them. But even when we grow up, we still have this in us. Maybe we have learned how to hide it as grown-ups, but whenever we have the…