Dear Patience,
It’s so difficult to get a hold of you.
Those illusion-filled overnight success stories do make you look irrelevant.
The fake posturing on Instagram of others does make quick money look amazing.
Their pretend-lifestyle around luxury traveling and partying does make one get edgy about success.
The countless sleepless nights are tough.
The amount of hard work needed to be put in looks incredibly difficult.
When everything is going wrong, it’s hard to believe in your miracles.
When there’s not enough food to eat and the relationships are in turmoil, it’s not easy to wait for the good days.
When there’s mental illness to deal with, the idea of success does seem pointless because of the journey it takes to get there.
It’s not easy to close the eyes and work every day — not at least if one has worked and worked and worked already.
When life is fucked up and sleep becomes an escape, it’s impossible to be positive about the prospect of good days.
What if it doesn’t come? What if the hard work never pays of? What if the wait is just a way to lie to yourself that you can still succeed? What if life passes by with just a chase to happiness but never really feeling that happy feeling?
What if you are just a farce? What if there’s no real thing as patience? What if patience is just a sad way to live life?
The mind, hammered with negative thoughts, does wander to these questions. The belief shakes and suffocates.
But it also goes to places where you have shown your magic. The mind also sees the countless examples of your true power — of turning relentless efforts of individuals into a massive success.
The mind also understands the so-many-times you have turned a rock into a diamond.
And that’s where the mind trusts you. That’s when the mind believes in patience and all the grandeur of happiness it guarantees.
Dear patience… It’s not easy having you. You slip-by easily. Sometimes in anger, sometimes when sad and sometimes when hopeless. But you’re the magic for the ordinary. When others front with their wealth and lifestyle, you’re the support for ordinary, hard-working, good-intent individuals who wish happiness for themselves and others. And I believe in you. :)
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