The virtue of patience is known to all but exercised only by a few

Many people might know a lot of diverse things, but when they need to actually utilise them, they tend to forget. For instance, the virtue of patience is known to all, but used by a few. Our propensity to be impatient about many small or big things in our day to day lives cost us the loss of peace of mind. Though we have little control over most things, but we tend to believe that we are the drivers of the events in our life.

I have seen people becoming nervous and abusive with airline staff if the flight is delayed. Knowing fully well that neither they nor the airline ground staff is responsible for it. When the Bhagvad Gita tells you to do your duties and forget about the results, it is basically teaching you to be more patient and less worried about things on which you have no control. When someone sows seeds for a tree, digging every morning and seeing its growth will not help.

Sometimes giving more time to the problem acts as a solution. It is solved by either a quirk of fate or changed circumstances. the intensity of our actions does not always result in positive results. So when we teach our children to be more patient, we need to give them more time to imbibe this quality too.