I'm rediscovering the value of patience. Actually, maybe rediscovering is not the word. I have never really been what you would describe as patient. Patience has always been something that has been imposed on me. Be patient. Hang on. Wait. Be still will you?
I prefered to move. Fast. Like my mind did. As soon as a person began speaking I would already see where they were heading and skip right to the end. In school I would spend most of my time in my classes doing something other than listen to the teacher drone on and on. I was always doodling or reading a novel hidden in my text book or taking flights of fancy in my imagination. I would set the scene by being the model student for the first few minutes of the lesson. Put my hand up and answer all the questions correctly for the first few minutes until the teacher would smile at me and ask me to give the others a chance, that was my cue, from that moment I knew I'd become invisible and I could do whatever I wanted.
I suppose I always found a way to make less pleasant aspects of my life, fly past. I would always whizz by to what I wanted. Fast. Just like my mind. My amazing brain would come up with a myriad of schemes to keep others occupied or manipulate them into getting what I wanted. Fast.
Lately though, I've been getting out of my head more and flowing. Not much mind work in flowing. More about being still and centred in self and trusting that life is taking you to where you want to go. For the first time though, my super quick mind has been slow to catch on.
Patience has always been something to avoid, to circumvent, to get rid of. Why wait, when we can do it. Fast. Why wait?
Why wait? Why wait?
I'm not too sure why, but I know that I want to. For the first time I find myself in a self imposed state of patience. More willing to slow down and savour every moment. More willing to trust and let go. More willing to just flow.
Why wait? Because words do not make sense without the spaces in between. Why wait? Because a song would not be as beautiful if there was only sound and no silence. Why wait? Because most things worth having, are worth waiting for. Why wait? Because life is a journey and we are in one eternal process of getting to our destination.
Its not about the destination, it's getting there. It's the ebb and the flow. It's the space in between. That is what life is all about.
Think about it. Birth-Death. Life is the hyphen.
Makes sense to slow down and savour it a little don't you think?
I prefered to move. Fast. Like my mind did. As soon as a person began speaking I would already see where they were heading and skip right to the end. In school I would spend most of my time in my classes doing something other than listen to the teacher drone on and on. I was always doodling or reading a novel hidden in my text book or taking flights of fancy in my imagination. I would set the scene by being the model student for the first few minutes of the lesson. Put my hand up and answer all the questions correctly for the first few minutes until the teacher would smile at me and ask me to give the others a chance, that was my cue, from that moment I knew I'd become invisible and I could do whatever I wanted.
I suppose I always found a way to make less pleasant aspects of my life, fly past. I would always whizz by to what I wanted. Fast. Just like my mind. My amazing brain would come up with a myriad of schemes to keep others occupied or manipulate them into getting what I wanted. Fast.
Lately though, I've been getting out of my head more and flowing. Not much mind work in flowing. More about being still and centred in self and trusting that life is taking you to where you want to go. For the first time though, my super quick mind has been slow to catch on.
Patience has always been something to avoid, to circumvent, to get rid of. Why wait, when we can do it. Fast. Why wait?
Why wait? Why wait?
I'm not too sure why, but I know that I want to. For the first time I find myself in a self imposed state of patience. More willing to slow down and savour every moment. More willing to trust and let go. More willing to just flow.
Why wait? Because words do not make sense without the spaces in between. Why wait? Because a song would not be as beautiful if there was only sound and no silence. Why wait? Because most things worth having, are worth waiting for. Why wait? Because life is a journey and we are in one eternal process of getting to our destination.
Its not about the destination, it's getting there. It's the ebb and the flow. It's the space in between. That is what life is all about.
Think about it. Birth-Death. Life is the hyphen.
Makes sense to slow down and savour it a little don't you think?
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