Patience

The twanging of life
Ninth part :  Patience

I was confused about patience, what is it exactly, is it to have that power of enduring the problems of life, the difficulties of life and pain ?!, or is it to have that power of facing all those things ?!, is patience all about staying and waiting for the best expectations to happen and to help yourself by hoping for a positive actions ?.

As we Sudanese people, we need to understand well what does it mean to be patient, because we have misunderstood the biggest and the most important part of patience's meaning, majority of us think to be patient means, to bear the worst emotions, problems, difficulties and pain with doing nothing else and just we hope and wish for the best anticipations so we believe that patience and waiting are the same thing while they aren't, of course  waiting is a part of patience, l can't deny that  but still it is only one element among the other elements that together constitute patience, how is it that ?!.

 Let me to expand the idea for you, let us suppose that you are a farmer and now you are planting in your farm then you face this problem which your orchards aren't growing up well while you do your best effort so if l say for you "be patient", does this mean you have to stop watering the trees and wait ?, or  you have to find a way to let time passes until the trees grow on its own way ?, of course that is big mistake because if you don't give the trees water it will die so from here patience has nothing to do with waiting and hoping for positive things.

Patience is all about working hard while waiting for the results and the real patient people are the white knights who know how to save themselves, patient people who understand the pain and these difficulties and they know that they are going through in temporary because one day they will change their life to be better, Edward said that "patience isn't passive on the contrary, it is active, it is concentrated strength". 

So stop wishing positive things and try to overcome, try to outdo those difficulties with your patience and  l know, it  is hard and it takes time because it is really about having the inner strength to stick to your guns, to face your fear repeatedly, just  let it  go of internal expectations and have trust that will all work out in the end.