Patience is a virtue which brings great rewards, unfortunately not everyone possess this virtue. Patience as a virtue is the ability to endure even in the most unfavourable or darkest moments. Having patience as an individual will help us greatly as people always say that the patient dog eats the fattest bone. Sometimes life have something big for us but we are not always patient to receive it. A person seeking for job was asked to wait for some hours before his interviewer arrive, he shrugged it off and went back home, insisting he cannot wait. Indeed he can't be employed since he is not patient enough. As the popular Yoruba adage which says there's no such thing as too much of patience except it's still not enough. This is to show the fact that patience is an indispensable virtue we all need as human beings, it's a virtue we have to apply in every areas of life, either in workplace, in social relationships and much more, patience is always needed.
Always be patient and ascertain the truth before concluding. Some people just bump into issues without examining them carefully before making decisions. That child that's not doing well in school, have you taken out your time and patience in understanding why the child is performing low in school, some of us are always hasty in making conclusions, such like concluding that the child is a dullard and things relating to that. A person is not made in a day, it requires patience, hard work among others. Even you need to be patient for a plant to grow. This is to show that all of us have time to grow and develop, don't just be too hasty to overrun your time.
There's this African story which teaches about the importance of being patient that I love so much. It's actually a story about a monkey who desired so much to become a human. It always envy human beings because of their intelligence and how they do things, he marveled at their beauties, how they love to celebrate and merry on good occasions. He then decided to go before God to explain its plight to him. On getting to the Almighty, it blurted out its frustrations as an animal and how life has been difficult for him, he told God how he has always loved to become a human as he fancy their ways.
Without much ado, God told him he could actually become a human that he desired, the monkey was so happy to hear that God has already wanted to make him a human. So God told him to go home and hide itself for seven days without seeing anybody. God told him that during those seven days he should not appear to anyone as God doesn't want anyone to see how it will be transformed into human. This is the condition set before the monkey. The monkey thanked God profusely and promised to abide by the rules given to him by the Almighty.
He went home and start to live a confined life for seven days as ordered by the Almighty. The first day went by and good, the second day gone so was the third day. On the fourth day of staying in his house without going out, some of his friends came to visit and to inquire of him the reason for his absence in the community for some days back but this monkey won't open the door for them to see him, they went away after some futile knocking without any response.
On the sixth day, there was a wedding ceremony of one of the daughters of the king of the land. Important personalities were invited and dignitaries were not left out too. Music was blazing loud too and people were happy. Monkey on hearing the sound of music was so happy to hear a ceremony going on at the palace. Without much ado, he put on his best cloth and went out to witness the grand occasion forgetting the warning given to him by God not to ever get out of the house until after the seventh day.
On getting to the occasion he started shouting to anyone who cares to listen to him on how he will become a human soon. He was happy and started jumping around, biting people and telling them how soon it will be when he is going to become like them. This angered God that he decided not to make monkey become human again. The seventh day came and monkey eventually realized how impatience has costed him so much. Out of this shame, he decided to leave the community for the forest and he has been living there ever since.
He was inpatient with himself and as a result of that, it could not reach his goal of becoming a human. Let's learn to be patient, to be endure and believe for the best.
Patience is the ultimate virtue anyone can desire, if you have this virtue, you will conquer a whole lot of things.