You Can't Rush It

It has come to my attention that life, while requiring a go get it attitude, causes those who choose to progress to develop one characteristic in particular. While life has demands that must be met, there is one aspect that is only learned through the various experiences and trials. This aspect or characteristic of life is called PATIENCE...
The type of patience I speak of is not the kind we use when we are in a rush and the other driver is slow. (I hate that). It is not the kind of patience we use when the fast food restaurant tells you to pull forward and they will bring it out. (Hate that as well) It's not even the kind of patience that we use when we are waiting on a response to an email, letter, or text. It's a different kind.
I'm talking about the kind of patience where you must wait for your time to come. That's different than the regular old patience at use in daily life. You see with those other types of patience, it's not too hard to use it because we know the slow driver will turn off. We know the poorly paid people at the restaurant will bring the fries eventually. We also know/hope that our attempts at communication will be met favorably. (You will either receive a response or not. Either way you get a answer). With the other more intense form of patience, the end results aren't always known or even foreshadowed.
When you start talking about waiting for your time to come, not only do you have to wait but you also have to be able to recognize it when you see it. This patience comes with secondary structures and caveats.... This is the kind of patience that must be used when dealing with unhealthy relatives and immature partners in relationships. It's a particular type of patience that only reveals itself to those who have been in circumstances that called for it. You don't have that patience if you are currently in a situation, only when you have been burned in the fire and can see it the rear view mirror of your life.
In my daily thinking time, I have wondered about the inner strength that I seem to possess. I wondered how I have been able to endure some of my own personal struggles without falling into the well of depression and decadence that so many fling themselves into. What I realized is that I owe appreciation and gratitude to all of those people, places, and things that have made solid attempts to wreck my life. Those are the things that allow me to shrug of the disappointments of today and tomorrow. (That along with managing expectations).
I said all of that to get to this point. Because the toll of that type of patience takes on the life of the user, one thing is certain. Those who possess it should be more cautious about having to use it. How do you know when you have to use it? You don't know. So the truth about it is, you can't rush it. You can't rush anything. Take your time when it comes to any event that may leave you having to display that type of patience. In your relationships, large purchases, life changing decisions, and spiritual walk,....don't rush it. I'm not telling anyone how to live, just how to live easy. Let it come to you in the process of going to get it......whatever "it" is.