“ I can’t count the number of young artistes that will come to my dm and boldly tell me they want to join Illuminati. Some say they want to do anything, some even say they can sacrifice anything. Honestly, this generation is sick. I did not sacrifice anybody to get here, I did not join any cult, young people need to relax. At 20, you want to join cult and blow ? Take this life easy, or else you’ll lose it when you get it. ” Mr Flavour
Truth be told, young people have given up on patience. They are only interested in the quickest means ‘to blow’ at all cost. Their impatience is a major reason for their academic, social, and emotional decline. They have been seduced by visual world stimulations, which makes real-life boring to them while visual life becomes their reality. It stems from parental over indulgence and instant give in to every desire of a child, which gradually culminates to impatience, intolerance, and insensitive.
One of the greatest attributes of artists is their ability to patiently draw, paint, sculpt, or mould a piece of art. Patience and consistency make the outcome of their work beautiful, a beauty that is an art as well as an act of patience. This demonstrates that good things are birthed by patience.
Patience is the ability to accept delay or to tolerate difficulty. It is a vital life ingredient and a moral virtue that teaches efficient skills for a happy living, a healthy relationship, and a successful life. A patient person views things positively, expects less of immediate feedback or quick results, or instant gratification.
Patience is in different forms. It could be interpersonal patience (patience with other people), daily hassles patience (patience for circumstances beyond our control), or life hardship patience (patience to overcome serious setbacks or unfortunate incidence).
Life is in different waiting periods. The gestational period, the nursing period, the puberty, the schooling period, the training period, and so on. Each stage in a period is progressive and requires patience. In this patience are many struggles and challenges. A lot of struggles birth invention. A lot of sports competitions birth a medal. A lot of elections birth a winner. The losses, difficulties, and pains in all these are harboured by patience.
We are in a generation where the young gets easily irritated, easily annoyed, and unnecessarily vehement. Parents need strong spines to instil patience in this generation, where children do not like guidance or correction. Their only default is agitation or anger, which often leads to tantrums.
This lack of patience is so glaring, judging by their attitude in traffic, in crossing the main roads, in studying for exams, in preparing for a competitions, in waiting for their turn at shops, in a queue, in following instructions, in upholding rules, in waiting for a computer program to load, in making online and offline quick judgement, in chasing grades instead of knowledge, in making quick money and so on. They are more interested in short cuts that lead to pseudo success rather than the lasting benefits in the wait of patience.
This explains why they are always in a hurry to find the right means, the right friend, the right partner, the right career, and the right job. With this, they yield more to arrogance, rudeness, insensitivity, and impulsiveness. They make snap judgements and interrupt conversations. They argue a lot. They only listen to respond instead of to understand. They speak without reasoning. They have poor approach, bad temper, poor anger management skills, poor emotional intelligence, and they generally lack inter personal relationships. Evidently, lack of patience is a mother of many vices!
Impatience in children and youths is largely caused by a culture of expectations because their timing of achievement is not compatible with patience.They are more concerned with how things should be, order than the existing reality. They need to slow down and appreciate the good in their life, to endure and make better informed judgement that lead to greater success. As Cristina Marrero said, “Maybe that’s why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward….just patience and faith. “
Patience is the foundation of faith and hope. It is one of the greatest moral virtues and a great tool to moral excellence.
BIBLE VERSE
James 5:8
“You also must be patient. Keep your hopes high, for the day of the Lord’s coming is near.”
PROVERBS
At the bottom of patience, one finds heaven. ~ African proverb
RIDDLE
Everyone wants it, but once you have it, you can easily lose it. The young rarely have it, and the old usually have plenty of it. Once the time comes, you will know when you have achieved it. What is it?
Amara Ann Unachukwu
