The Patient Dog....

This early morning, as I woke up to go to work, I witnessed people were already on the road to work. Every Monday is such a busy day for me, and other people as well. The rush to get to work on time is intense. 

As early as 4:30 Am, men, women, even children that are going to school are already plying the roads, against all odds to meet with time. 

As good as this may sound, a lot of these early risers may  not be patient enough to make for a free flow of traffic.  The traffic situation in a major city like Lagos is quite worrisome. 

Patience is such a good virtue that a few seconds' passage, when applied can help solve a lot of problems. 

Patience Builds Our Reputation.

When an individual can handle life situations with as much simplicity as required to solve such a problem, his or her reputation increases in the sight of those who have been engaged or involved in such circumstances. 

As simple as allowing the vehicle before you move in the direction that it wants to move is a good way to allow your patience to overrule your ambitiousness. 

It Encourages Your Long Term Goals

When setting goals, on a long-term basis, patience helps you to weather the storm irrespective of hurdles that may be encountered while attempting to meet up. 

We could decide to shed more light on our plans if that may not be necessary if we already have a goal and work at it through patience. 

It Helps To Build Your Skill Set

As you desire to be patient, there is no achievement you cannot attain. As a wife, a husband, a footballer, and so on, making patience a part and parcel of you cause you to learn new skills and to make progress where people who do not have this propensity fail. 

Magnet To People

Patience is a virtue that pours off smoke. It scents people. An individual who exhibits patience can easily attract people because their level of maturity is so advanced that they could handle the weirdest problem in the smartest way one could ever think. 

To say the least, a patient person is worth more than a person who has the whole world in assets. Little wonder an adage says:

The patient's dog eats the fattest bone. 

I have heard people in recent times that nowadays, a patient dog may not even have a bone to eat. 

This goes to tell the world that patience is now extinct in our today's society. 

Look around you, you'd see clearly that this generation of youth who claim to be faster than  parents, even claim to be smarter than the last generation are all heading for doom because of a lack of patience. 

They are now more money-conscious than to be good humans first. 

People have forgotten that an act of kindness through patience does a lot of good to humanity. 

To be impatient could cause a lot of headaches to men. Here are some of the presumed consequences of being impatient.

It Complicates Matters 

Most times, when people fail to apply patience, they may have to pay dearly 

Impatience Clouds Vision

At the moment when a decision is to be taken or rushed over, one may not be able to see farther because their thoughts are clouded by the actions they want to take at that moment.

Usually, the phrase beneath is the consequence of taking an action that an individual did not take time to ruminate over. 

Had I known.

For instance, like I experienced this morning, when in a traffic jam and you feel like getting off to trek the distance, one should better listen to the radio or play music to get completed again. 

Resorting to trekking could become more painful than we can imagine. 

Impatience Can Lead Obesity

Studies have shown that impatient people get very obsessed. The hormone that causes largeness in the skin tissue is released. Whether it is true or not, it has been registered that impatience is not a credible attribute. 

Emotion Instability

A person who is impatient reacts too quickly, unable to control his or her temperament. This results in emotional obsession which may not augur well with others. 

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