Patience is a Virtue

For me patience really is a virtue. A dictionary defines it partially as " particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality". That makes sense to for patience to be a beneficial quality. But darn it all since when do I have good qualities. I have such little patience for some things. But for others maybe I hide my impatience well sometimes since some people think I have more patience than I know what to do with.

I wonder how I ever had the patience for nine months to bake my babies? Maybe the fear of labour made me patient. And really did I have a say in the matter, NO. When the apple is ripe it falls off of the tree, but believe me you somedays I could have shaken that tree.

When I (and Big Daddy for that matter) get a thought or idea we run with it. Sometimes we leap before we have a good look. I think we enjoy the excitment of things, change of somethings, or the aspect of something new or fulfilling a want. Very impulsive. *sigh* But as they say "you make your bed and you lie in it". We struggle to try to make unimpulsive choices but we aren't always successful.

Like right now we have a plan. If we stick to the plan the outcome will be great. But the excitement of that something wonderful makes you want to leap for it now. Not that if we chose to do it now it wouldn't be wonderful, but our plan is the plan and it makes sense.... to us anyways!

But on the other hand for somethings if you wait to long do you miss the window of opportunity. So in that case is patience really a virtue? If I had a guess I would have to say not. Since the old saying isn't "patience is crap" or "patience is a detrement" or even "patience is a vice"... virtue it is I guess.