Dear Patience

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   silkwormyposted 10 years ago

   Dear Patience,  you give me hope, but you also take it away.

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      Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      What a hugely intriguing post (to me at least.)
      Is patience a person or do you mean the attribute?

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         silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         It is the attribute Beth37, and it is confronting it in a way, like in a conversation, through a letter with the "dear" part  . . .

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            Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

            I mean it's a very deep quote the more you dwell on it.
            Being patient doesn't actually offer hope as much as the fact that in being patient, you have actually decided not to give up on hope.
            
            However, yes, it could take hope away in the fact that by making the decision to be patient, that means you do not actually have what it is you're looking for and could always be on the verge of losing patience thereby immediately losing hope.
            
            So the answer must be that in order to have hope, you must never give up on patience. Which is an act of patience itself.

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               silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

               Wow, did you just explain it all for me Beth37? Thank you! Yes. In that case.

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                  Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

                  I was just going off what you wrote. lol
                  You're Socrates, I'm Plato.

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                  silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                  You did look into it deeply, and your understanding of it, Beth37, is actually more than what I intend to say.

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                     silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                     Thank you very much, Beth37.

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                     Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

                     Well I've been told I think too much.
                     Tell me what spin you were putting on it... what was on your mind when you wrote it?

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                        silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                        Socrates? To that level? That made me smile really, Beth37. I like your question (which by the way will result to more possible answers in your mind). It is about a particular task you are confident about doing and getting better at it in time (that's why there's hope), but then along the way, circumstances and people somehow end that hope quite too soon, that confidence you are molding patiently in your mind and heart.  And in your being patient in what's happening and with the nature of the people around you, you lose that possibility of finishing that pursued task.

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                           Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

                           So then the answer would be not to allow others to decide what you will put your hope in.
                           You don't have to be the master of your destiny to be the captain of your boat. If your crew is mutinous, throw them off the ship.

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                              silkwormyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                              Not to allow them to eat you up, what your system tells you to do, but you still give it away sometimes. I think I am satisfied with your first sentence. What follows gives me more explanations to work on.

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   jansharesposted 10 years ago

   Your virtue is hard to sustain,

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   silkwormyposted 10 years ago

   Hard indeed.

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