Oct 27 2008
Patience, not a virtue, a developed talent
Patience is the ability to resist acting in a certain way when a person is facing a certain event in life. Patience is a skill, not a virtue. It is admired in people who have the ability to use it in areas where the admirer feels they wouldn’t be able to apply it.
The way to gain patience is by loosing it. Once you go through the event or situation that made you angry, the second round of the same situation will be handled differently. Therefore, by loosing it the first time, you gain it the second time. While many situations in life are only lived once, patience can still be applied in new situations because of similar encounters faced previously.