Patience is Not Always a Virtue
The worldwide lock-up has granted most of us partial parole. We still have to follow any updated rules in order to remain safe and stay away from those who think they are above the need to seek safety. Psychologists are going to be studying those folks for a long time to see why they couldn’t accept the ever changing truth of science. They tend to have deeply embedded neural pathways that keep them from rethinking that they are trapped in following the same thought to a virtual dead end. Patience isn’t a virtue when you are just waiting around for a boot to drop. You learned that by evading those falling bombs in hours and hours of video games. Sadly, when the decisions those around us make can still hurt us or a more vulnerable group, we wish they would just rise to the occasion.
Be Impatient
When it is time to end the waiting, enjoy being impatient. Celebrate the fact that you did what you needed to do to get to this point. The constant movement of time carried us forward to this moment. It is easier to forget the day to day trauma of random boredom, random high levels of busyness, random aloneness or random fear of crowds that permeated our social lives. We behaved as if we all had the chance of being a carrier of a devilish virus and learned the importance of taking a step back to improve the luck of moving forward. Patience in our workplace changes, patience in changes in our relationship dynamics, patience in our social encounters and most of all patience with ourselves got us to the next level of the game, vaxxed patience. It is more likely that your patience will subtly adjust your usual method of dashing ahead with the addition of a greater awareness of what could be on the next screen.
Global Patience
It is unusual to win a global game of patience. There are so many teams on the field, so many players with different points of view on how to score, so many levels of science to take into account that it takes great patience to sort everything out between the short time outs. The penalties seem obvious. The game is in extra innings and there is no definitive and final end in sight. We like endings. But beating a game leaves you searching for another challenge. Patience will be rewarded. There will be an end even if it is just to start another round of the game. The globe has been playing for some time, it knows patience well.
Referee Yourself
It’s good to be your own referee. With luck, it will decrease the chance of a fight breaking out. The ability to make your own right call means that you may take into account all of the other players standing with you. If the herd wants to take a walk, there is healthy company to provide protection. As a skill, patience is tough to master but rewarding to have. It gives you the chance to continue to inch up other values without having to count on the world getting sick to force more change. Levelling up is a good feeling in video games and life.
Have you levelled up in your game of life? How does it feel to understand what mastering patience feels like? Can you now move forward with a little impatience to jump to the next challenge?
