Learning Patience

Something happened some few hours ago that kinda reminded me about my childhood which also prompted tonight's post.

_{photo by Karsten Winegeart}

I was sitting outside with my friends around 10:04pm, I knew what the time was because the hostel opposite mine closes their gate exactly at 10pm and this guy had arrived around four minutes past ten and he started banging on the gate, trying to get the attention of those inside so that they could come open the gate for him.

He had knocked on that gate for about two minutes straight before walking away and about a minute after he walked away, someone had opened the gate from inside but he was no where to be found.

Watching that whole thing made me think about patience and that immediately took me back to many years ago when my dad would always try to make me see the importance to being patient.

Back then, my dad discovered at an early age that I wasn't really one with patience, because of how restless I got whenever I had to wait for something exciting to happen at a later date.

One time he had gifted me a Walkman but had asked me to leave it in his drawer until he was back from work so that he could teach me how to use it. But being impatient like I am, I had gone to pick it up the moment he left for work, and while I was playing around with it, trying to get it to work, I had messed up and one spring had flew from it.

Noticing the damage that I had done, I had quickly dropped it back in his drawer and went out to play. When he got back from work and called me so that he could show how it works, we had found out that that single spring that flew out from it had damaged the whole thing and it could no longer work.

That was probably one of the saddest days of my childhood and that day he had talked to me about patience and why it is very important to have patience, especially as a man.

Unfortunately, I've come to find out that I still haven't mastered the art of being patient even at this my current age. I mean I try to an extent, but deep down in me, I'm always itching for things to happen as quickly as possible, especially if it's something really exciting.