Patience and perseverance.
Patience and perseverance.
I’m repeating those two words to myself.
I’m repeating them here.
Patience and perseverance.
They do not roll off the tongue as other words do – words like success, blessing, ease, triumph, happy ending.
How ironic, then, that “perseverance” and “patience” are the very words that lead to all those other serotonin-inducing words.
Perseverance isn’t popular,
Which is problematic,
For it is a potent pathway to progress.
These are chaotic times. The world is in transition. I know you feel it. Here are two takes I have on the matter:
Patience and Perseverance. There you go.
{Another take I have is The Art of Conversation}.
Between here and there, between now and then, in the middle, on the way, before the arrival…is this thing called real life. So much of real life is about patience and perseverance.
I’d prefer utopia.
I planted some Bee Balm in the garden in late April, and it’s only about 6″ tall. Nowhere near flowering. I’m thinking that maybe in September it will be full grown? I’m not sure. I just keep tending to them as best I can. So much of gardening is about patience and perseverance.
I started writing a novel about 7 years ago. I finished it late last year, and am now in the middle of the second draft…seven years later. To me, that’s a lot of waiting. A lot of miserable edits and postponing and delaying and self-doubts. I recently heard of an author who spent ten years just doing the world building for his novel, before he even started the writing process. So much of writing is about patience and perseverance.
Ideas and hopes and dreams take time.
Lots of time.
Lots of hard work.
Lots of patience and perseverance.
I don’t like that.
I like “immediately if not sooner”.
But it’s the perseverance,
the steady determination,
and the patience
that propel me into the future.