Patience is a Virtue

Sometimes it is very difficult to be patient, but it’s a part of life. Patience is a virtue that isn’t present in everyone, for those who can be patient, their patience differs in scale. Some people are really easygoing, have a lot of patience, and are most of the time going to keep a level head in most situations. Then there are other people who can still be patient with you, and you know that they try, but usually at some point that patience is going to fade and you are going to see the ugly side of that person. Some people play their patience for fun, in any sports you play, you’re going to have your wins and loses, but you have to be patient with your team and stick through it, just because you might have lost, it doesn’t mean you can go yell at your teammate who may or may not have cost you the game, you just have to be patient with them and move on from it. Another example of patience being fun is hunting and fishing, when you are hunting you have to be quiet, still, and patient, you have to wait for the right animal to come out, and you have to wait for it to get into a spot you can shoot it, then you also have to make sure to take your time shooting it so you actually kill the animal and don’t just injure it and then have to track it anyway, because you weren’t patient enough to wait for the right shot, and it’s the same with fishing, you have to wait for a fish to bite your hook, then you have to set the hook and reel the fish in, but if you don’t set the hook or if you reel the fish in too fast, you’re going to lose that fish. Life is full of things that you have to be patient for, even if everything seems to be going wrong, or you’re in a hurry for whatever reason, you can’t get upset about it, you just have to deal with it and move forward, and it’s better to that than to complain and moan about it.

My most memorable and probably favorite moment of patience was when I was hunting myself. I was out in my Uncle Damien’s hunting shack, with him, and we had already hunted a couple of times that season and weren’t expecting to see anything as it was already past the time that deer around that area typically like to come out. At this point, it’s mid to late morning, and we hear a couple of twigs snap, we look around and didn’t see anything, so we relaxed a little and assumed it was a squirrel, my Uncle started looking at his phone, but I kept looking, and good thing I did. I looked over to a spot that was kind of grown in with a bunch of trees and caught some movement, so I started looking a little closer and I realized that it was a deer tail flapping. I tell my Uncle and he just cannot see it, but me, I am already on my gun ready to shoot, he tells me to wait for it to come out before I shoot, it’s a good thing I did too. When it finally came out, I got my shot lined up, and it started running, but I didn’t shoot until my Uncle got it to stop, which is when I took my shot and got it. If I wasn’t patient and shot the deer as soon as it started running I wouldn’t have gotten it probably, and even if I had shot it while it was running, it wouldn’t have killed it. So, this should go to show that if you’re patient and if you take your time you’ll get what you want. Patience is a skill hard to master, but it is a skill that everyone has and is needed at some point in time, during life.

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