For me, the read sounded more like "patience" is not so much perceived by you as a virtue, more like a negative thing

Ooops..... No! Patience is a virtue indeed. It is the trait of prophets. All the holy books guide us about patience and how much God loves the patient. ..... What I have conflict with is the description of patience given by people. Like we take no actions on our part and keep on waiting to change the things on their own. Doing thing, we think we are patient. That is NOT patience in my vision. What I think patience is.... it is to take actions whatever we can within our resources, and then wait for the results to come. We may not get the positive outcome but we keep on pouring our efforts patiently. This is something I regard as virtue.

And towards my last question... I asked you because I had been thinking of you for some days. I thought quite often to jump to your profile and see what's the latest. But for one reason or the other I couldn't do this.
I heard somewhere, when we miss someone and s/he appears, it doesn't happen without reason. Our mind has sent some message to her mind.