Patience is a very nice and polite way to say WAITING.
Just when does waiting move past patience and become sitting on your ass? Not doing what you should because you are hoping/expecting for something to come to you?
I don't know where that line is. I want to be a patient girl, I really do. But holy moly, what if in my eagerness to be polite and patient I have let things pass me by, or even worse, go totally undetected because I have been sitting here, waiting?
If I jump up and shout I'M NOT WAITING ANY LONGER! I'M TAKING CONTROL, RIGHT THIS MINUTE! will I then become impatient? Or demanding? Or impulsive? Or Even Worse, stupid?
Because I'm at that point, people. The point where the line between being patient and being proactive is getting dangerously blurry. The point where I may make a rash decision because damnit, I am so tired of waiting and I want activity, forward progress, momentum RIGHT NOW.
I don't know when to continue giving free rein to the path of our lives, hoping and counting on the 'right thing' to happen or to choke up on them and guide us into what we think is the best avenue. I'm coming up blank here and wondering, just wondering, which is more erroneous?
We will eventually choose one of these tactics, and I sure do hope it's the right one. The one that gets us where we are supposed to be. What we are supposed to be doing. And whether that be by biding our time and waiting for the prime opportunity or by striking out and searching for it on our own, I know not.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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Go with your gut, I say.
some of us have to wait with great patients. I have not choice until at the earliest 8/30.
Hurry up and wait. It can be so painful. Do what you need to do [i.e. 'go with your gut' as Pen already advised]
We're ever so patiently waiting right along with you.
Megs! I've been praying that the horse-trainer-thingy works out. Is that what you are waiting for?
As for me, I am a very impatient person. So, maybe my advice is skewed... But, no one ever hit a ball without coming up to bat first. Pioneers didn't get anything accomplished by waiting for things to come to them- they forged their own path. Carpe Diem. Sieze the day. And, as my dad used to quote:
"On the fields of hesitation lie the bones of countless thousands, who, on the dawn of victory lay down to rest... and resting, died."
Strike hard and fast, Megs! (Okay, even I'm sounding a little too military for my own taste!)
You have to love your life before it will change. Love the journey of getting there as well as being there.
You have to love your life before it will change. Love the journey of getting there as well as being there.
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