…….One may think that the person who can execute swiftly, competently and effectively has no need of patience, because he has already swept through the method, process, or his practiced and organized manner of doing things, be they mental or physical. A person, who is impatient, is a person who knows what he is doing and therefore executes his action immediately and with great expediency.
This perspective is logically sound; however it masks or mistakes the process of completion with the moment of initiation. When the decision is made, when the action is initiated, there are other elements enter the play: swiftness, efficacy, lightening like movement.
A person of a great knowledge and competency but impatient is a poster child for the disaster, because knowledge and competency just a signposts but nothing ever repeat itself. Impatience is blindness versus patience is wisdom. Wisdom not to trust yesterday knowledge because it is outdated and never true anymore, there are the others and unknown variables entered the picture. Nothing is ever the same and nothing is as it appears to be. To understand this reality is easy but not enough.
The person must be aware, alert, self-critical and self-confident to stay on course, to use his ability to maximum and compensate for his shortcomings, to be able to stay out of the ditch. This problem, with enough effort, is manageable. Another problem is more complicated and beyond the control of any man. There are more active forces in play. Those forces confuse our language, teach us to misuse the meaning, replace our clarity with dullness. Those forces deliberately misplace the values and qualities; they simply keep us all in a ditch that progresses into the mass grave long before we die. A social conditioning is a name for one of them. And this subject is a topic for the next letter.
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