The Gains of Patience

When a farmer plants his seeds in his farm, he will not expect to go to the farm tomorrow to start to harvest his fruits. Otherwise he will succeed in killing his seeds by tampering with them. There is a need for him to give the seed time to go through germination, growth, maturity, flowering, before the fruits will start to manifest. This is exactly how patience is put to practice. It is worthy to note that having patience does not mean wasting of time.

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When a woman becomes pregnant, she is not expected to deliver the next day but after the due time. If she decides to deliver before the due time, it may put the baby and herself into risk. Similarly, in life, you should understand where to apply patience so that you will not become a casualty of life. You will agree with me that good things of life are worth waiting for and you will need to add patience to life. The time it takes to go through life itself needs patience.

When you entered school, you did not jump into university right away, you went through nursery school, then primary and so on. Each of these phases of your education required patience and you willingly gave it all it took because of the bigger picture in view, so why wouldn't you give life itself patience? The truth is that the time it takes to build a bicycle is not the same time it takes to build a spaceship. The size of your dream determines how long the actualization will take and that also should tell you the kind of patience to put in place.

One thing to note however is, when exercising patience, you do not have to fold your hands and wait for things to turn out good for you. For example, when you plant a tree in your farm, it will take years for it to start producing fruits right? But in the meantime, you can plant other complementary food crops to sustain you till the trees mature. In the same way, patience also means that you should get your hands busy while waiting for the maturity of your dreams.

In business and entrepreneurship, someone that started a small roadside trading may start to draw in profits the same day but the person that invested in car manufacturing company may not draw in profits till after some years. However, when it matures the profit from the roadside business will be nothing compared to the amount of profit a car manufacturer will be raking it, but he must have patience to wait for it to mature. Someone else's achievements should not be a yardstick to measure your own achievement or success. That others have started reaping their rewards does not mean that your own will not come.

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In life, even to bring about some changes will require patience. More so, to adopt the changes as they come will still require patience. Patience is the willingness to follow the due process of life and then hope for the result to come. Without fulfilling your own part, your patience will be futile. This is just like a farmer having patience for harvest without planting any seed, he will wait eternally in vain. So for patience to be profitable, you need to have put in your best and fulfilled your own side of the requirements.

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Peace on y'all

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