WE NEED PATIENCE TO DEVELOP A POSITIVE AND HELPFUL ATTITUDE

The other day when I was having my evening walk, I saw a neatly-folded paper on the way. I picked it up out of sheer curiosity. What a surprise! It had a beautiful quote in an ‘impossible-to-read’ handwriting, but somehow I could make it: “In life, two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing; and your attitude when you have everything.”

After a little research, I found that it is attributed to GB Shaw, the Irish playwright and critic. I immediately jotted it down in my diary, and wondered how these two attributes in a human being play a key role in leading one to success or failure.

Patience and attitude are two characteristics of a personality that can be used to develop habits that are not only progressive but fulfilling as well. One who has patience can always cultivate and exhibit good attitude for a good, purposeful life.

And, as someone had said, one must have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. In the words of Leo Tolstoy, “Patience is the most powerful warrior.” That is because one who can wait and have patience will have the means, the ways and the time to win any battle.

Patience teaches us how to wait eagerly with hope and joy. A woman shows the greatest patience when she is pregnant for nine months, and those months are greatly fulfilling and an indescribable source of joy.