JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON BEING PATIENT. PART 1.

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Patience is a virtue, he said, she said. Yes, patience is a veritable virtue. 

 But what is it which makes patience such a virtue, that it should, at some time or other, be on the lips of all men and women. Who seek to present themselves as being imbued with true wisdom, veritable prudence, as it were.

 How can it be, we might enquire, that patience can or could be such a virtue. 

 When contemporary humans, especially those of us who are living in the technologically advanced societies, are constantly being judged by our speed? 

 By how fast and how quickly we are able to do the things we have to do? 

 To make the products we have to make, and extract the resources we have to extract from mother earth? From our environment?  

 To earn the wage we must earn to make and buy our daily bread and essential wherewithal? 

How, indeed, can patience be such a virtue, when it means not hurrying, not rushing but waiting, taking a bit more time? 

 How can it be, when we are told and/or believe that time is money? That the less time we take to complete our task, to run the mile, etc, is the more money we can make? 

 How can patience therefore be a virtue?

 Could it be that patience was only a virtue in bygone times; times when humans had more time to do the things that they had to do? 

 When, for example, they had to be patient in waiting for the right time for the animals they hunted. 


 To present themselves in the best position to increase the chances of them being speared, being shot through with the arrows of the hunter. Or to be trapped in the hunters' snares and traps?

 Were those the times when patience was a virtue? When humans did not have as many competing things and tasks to perform? When they were able to spent time living and not working?

 So what is this patience of which we speak so highly? Is it really and/or solely about waiting  or taking more time to do the things we do? 

 Or taking more time to decide on the words we use to compose the things we say? Does patience means being more careful, more thoughtful? 

 Can we be impatient and still thoughtful, still careful? Or not being any less thoughtful or careful than we would have been, had we been patient?

 To be continued.



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