the trials and tribulations of maturity
i have issues with this person called patience. she eludes me all the time! i don't know what i have done to piss her off so royally. *sob*. my attempts at courting her can be likened to my attempts at exercise. the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. i am so pathetic. and this must be the reason why i am always faced with situations where i need her; but because i probably didn't make enough effort to endear her to me, i find that her response to me is usually delayed, or worse still, i am stood up. i know i know, it is all my own fault really. the trials and tribulations of maturity.
i marvel at those people who have this close bonding with patience. how do they do it? on closer inspection, one specimen i have observed closely for the past 1.5 years has drawn me a rough picture of the do's and don't's. i think this person has gone through enough disappointments to realise that it's pointless to sweat the small stuff. nothing came easy, hence that naturally trained him to endure and persevere at greater length. as opposed to me. i am so chagrined at how shallow my life lessons have been (in comparison), yet i am sooo thankful as well. of course i don't wish for difficult times, but in all our 'dear god, please teach me patience' prayers, have we ever considered that in order for us to learn this virtue, we have to go through tribulations that will nurtue this value in us? it's inevitable. i hate it, but there you go. duh.. i'm sure YOU'VE been enlightened waaaay before this post. it's just that today welcomed me with a situation that required my friend patience, so i decided to write about it. maybe when i read this again in the future i will remember my journey into maturity and laugh at how trivial i can be. by that time i would be SO mature that i don't need a reminder anyway. hah.
i inherited a mobile phone from my brother. it is MUCH more technically advanced than my old faithful. so i got a little annoyed that the alarm DID NOT COME ON THIS MORNING!!! and it kept hanging on me, and i couldn't do ANYTHING! not to mention the fact that i kept pressing the wrong key and got all the wrong applications. oh well, i love it now. i can even show a photo of my zit on it. it's so clear! and i love the games :) hhmm... i don't think i mind long meetings now..
i marvel at those people who have this close bonding with patience. how do they do it? on closer inspection, one specimen i have observed closely for the past 1.5 years has drawn me a rough picture of the do's and don't's. i think this person has gone through enough disappointments to realise that it's pointless to sweat the small stuff. nothing came easy, hence that naturally trained him to endure and persevere at greater length. as opposed to me. i am so chagrined at how shallow my life lessons have been (in comparison), yet i am sooo thankful as well. of course i don't wish for difficult times, but in all our 'dear god, please teach me patience' prayers, have we ever considered that in order for us to learn this virtue, we have to go through tribulations that will nurtue this value in us? it's inevitable. i hate it, but there you go. duh.. i'm sure YOU'VE been enlightened waaaay before this post. it's just that today welcomed me with a situation that required my friend patience, so i decided to write about it. maybe when i read this again in the future i will remember my journey into maturity and laugh at how trivial i can be. by that time i would be SO mature that i don't need a reminder anyway. hah.
i inherited a mobile phone from my brother. it is MUCH more technically advanced than my old faithful. so i got a little annoyed that the alarm DID NOT COME ON THIS MORNING!!! and it kept hanging on me, and i couldn't do ANYTHING! not to mention the fact that i kept pressing the wrong key and got all the wrong applications. oh well, i love it now. i can even show a photo of my zit on it. it's so clear! and i love the games :) hhmm... i don't think i mind long meetings now..
posted by pinkroses @ 5:38 PM
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