Are you upset? Are you sad? Are things not going as planned?
This always helps me:
Once this is done just smile; even if it’s a fake smile it will help. If you read my post about the benefits of laughing you will see that just your facial expressions can change your mood.
Patience is something I believe we all say we have but then get too impatient when things don’t go how we want them to and either settle or make irrational decisions. I’m not one for sitting around waiting for things to magically get better, but I do think that sometimes we jump to conclusions and forget to think about the consequences of our actions. I’ve realized that if I give things a little more time, they will almost always work themselves out. It’s like this universal natural order where things expand and contract but eventually will reach equilibrium if left alone.
Patience is about tolerating delay. If our job isn’t what we thought it would be, maybe we need to give it a little more time before we just quit it for another one. I like to think of the beginning of everything as the “honeymoon stage”; where everything is great for the first couple of weeks or months, and then you start realizing it isn’t what your expectations were.
If something is harmful or unhealthy then definitely don’t wait for anything, get out of there! But I’ve seen so many people who try something, immediately jump to some conclusion that everything is wrong, and when the first lifeboat hits the water, they jump right in and sail away.
They say good things come to those who wait; I also like to believe that good things come to good people. We have to give things a chance. We have to realize that every good and every bad is only a temporary feeling. If your day isn’t what you thought, just be patient, tomorrow might be the best day of your life; but don’t just run off or quit something because it didn’t go as planned. At least try your best and give it some time and effort.
It’s rare when things we expected to happen actually do and I’m starting to think if we actually had some patience we would soon find what we were hoping for. Everyone is in a rush and no one wants to slow down and look at themselves. Just have patience; things tend to fall into place even in the worst situations.
So when life gets you down, just take some time to sit back and relax. Once you hit rock bottom you can only go up; it just takes time.
- M.
