Having Patience Is Key

Being patient isn’t always easy, at all anyone who has tried to wait for something or has waited on someone else knows the feeling of having to wait. To me, it feels like forever when I have to wait five minutes. I mean even when I am keeping food in the microwave, I keep thinking I hear the beep of the microwave of it being done. Or when I’m going through the drive-thru I can almost taste the food. I am a very energetic person when I’m around others. But the least amount of patience I have is with waiting on truck parts or things being fixed. Some people have very good patience, but some, like myself, do not. I am horrible at being patient. When I go to get my haircut I can’t stand not doing anything for 15 minutes. but when I stand still I can’t seem to fight the feeling of wanting to get up and do so something. Sitting down makes me feel like a bull in a rodeo, just ready for the gate to open so I can be free. I have tried to work on being not so mushy or to be more patient on things but I can’t help wanting to go, go, go. I think I might have some ADHD too because I also cannot stand still for long. I always have to be moving. Even when I order truck parts online and can’t wait for them to show up. I check the tracking number every 5 seconds. There was this time when I was on my way to work and my truck broke down just as I had pulled into the driveway. And I noticed something was going wrong shortly after I had left school. But I had thought nothing of it because I had a lot going on that day and this was a time when work was really busy so I had to try to fix my truck in the yard which I hate especially when I don’t have my tools, so I knew I did not have a good chance of fixing it. My boss had let me try and fix it but I was trying to rush. I knew I had to be patient or else I would rush it and it would not go well. I ended up not being able to fix it because it required extreme disassembling so I had to call a tow truck and wait for the tow truck to drive me insane.

So at this moment, I wanted to turn my truck into dust because I was so frustrated. So shortly after the tow truck left, I had to call my mom’s uncle who owned an automotive shop to explain what happened to it. This would go on for a week and I still did not have a truck to go back and forth to work which for a person that has small patients like me was very hard . So I had to be patient and wait to hear back from my mom’s uncle because he had not found out what was wrong with it. So at this point, I had steam coming out of my ears. I could not stand not having my truck and I was tired of riding around with my parents. So I kept waiting and waiting until I couldn’t help myself but call again and ask about my truck. He finally answered and said that he did have a chance to look at my truck and it needed a clutch line that was very difficult to get and very difficult to change out. He said he would need at least another week and a half to get it fixed. So when he finally had it all fixed it felt like I was a bird let free out of the cage all of a sudden I realized that all that time I had waited was worth it. Being able to drive my truck on my own instantly made all the wait worthwhile. Like a wild cheetah running free on the horizon. I now realize how important being patient is. I found that being patient is the key to getting what you want in life.

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