Patients is the Best Skill to Have

Has there ever been a time in your life where you had to be patient. Being patient has come easy to me, sitting and waiting doesn’t bother me at all. I could sit and wait with nothing to do in the meantime for hours. It is the sitting and waiting while under duress that really tests your patients, especially for me. If there is something urgent or a life changing question that you have to wait to ask you get anxious and worried and could even feel trapped at those times when your patients come into play the most. I had gotten my permit a while ago and my parents day after day for a while were telling me how good of a driver I had become and that I might be even better than them in some regards.

My patient was tested when I was going for my drivers licence. I had been asking to take my driving test for months. I had way more than the required hours and I really needed my own transportation for a bunch of things especially extracurricular activities like drama. Unfortunately, my parents just didn’t think I was ready. It made me mad and frustrated that they wouldn’t even give me a chance. I was boiling and ready to overflow. At that point I felt like even if I was a professional NASCAR driver, they wouldn’t let me take the test. So I waited another whole month. I was in drama and it was really close to the next play, where I knew I would really need my licence so I was getting really annoyed. At this point I was really worried because they had made me wait so long that my permit was about to expire. If it expired I would have to do so much more work and have to wait even longer to be able to go for my licence. Fortunately, my time to strike came, my parents hate driving me back and forth for drama and they always complain. So when it came that time again for them to drive me to drama I told them that if they just let me get my licence, I would be able to drive myself and they wouldn’t have to do anything. That finally got their attention and after four months of waiting I was finally able to get my licence on the first try.

So in the end being patient paid off and I got what I wanted. For a while it felt terrible and like I would never get my licence, but in the end I did get it and it made me so happy. Who knows maybe, maybe waiting that extra time and getting that extra practice in was what allowed me to pass. My parents may have been just trying to do what was best for me in their opinion. Sometimes even if it does feel like you’re silently being ripped apart from the inside out it is in the end better to wait and be patient. 

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