Can you wait? Wait for as long as it takes for seeds to germinate, feelings appear and facts show signs, everything has its time, its own rhythms, even if one refuses to accept it.
If we stop and look around, we’ll notice that everything moves one way or another. It is the flow of life, the creative impulse of change, that feeds on everything that happens to cultivate results.
- Waiting is the time for boredom.
- Laziness.
- Impatience; but it is also the waiting room that welcomes us.
- The art of patience and the path of learning.
- Often voluntary and sometimes almost unthinkable.
It can even be said that waiting is the duration of this desire that we hope will germinate, bear fruit, but with the force of calm rather than acceleration.
“A man who is a master of patience is the master of everything else. “George Savile?
Byung-Chul Hal, a philosophical expert in cultural studies and professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, says in his book?The fatigue society? That 21st century society is no longer a society of discipline, but of income, in which the power to dispense with boundaries comes from
Today we all want to do more in less time, we live fast and under pressure in a world of excessive stimuli, more concerned with results than along the way.
The problem is that ignoring the steps we take and the way we walk leads to physical, mental and professional exhaustion.
In addition, our perception is fragmented by so many stimuli, now we are multitasking, we do everything and nothing at the same time.
According to Byung-Chul Hal, multitasking is not progress, but regression, because it impedes contemplation and deep attention. We live on our toes, without immersing ourselves in experiences and with an unbridled pace of life.
We don’t like to wait any longer, is it hard to be patient because we want everything instantly, immediately and impulsively, without being aware of the consequences?
Stress, anxiety, depression, boredom or even living uncomfortable during rest time. We feel uncomfortable because we have nothing to do, because we are confronted and we are not prepared for it.
Boredom is an enemy and we immediately seek a task, something that takes up our time. And in the midst of this turmoil, we forget that pure agitation generates nothing new and, in turn, we lose the “gift of listening,” as the philosopher says. Walter Benjamin says.
In short, we are lost in a spiral of hyperactivity, stress and agitation.
Could we find something if we slowed down?How would we feel? Stopping and stopping our commotion, at first, frightens us, we cannot deny it. It can even hurt, because we’re used to immediacy.
Patience is an art that must be learned on the basis of training and tolerance to ignorance and uncertainty, we panic, we find it unbearable not to know what is going to happen and we think that things will be out of our control.
But it is clear that sometimes it is impossible to avoid it, let us not forget that patience has to do with being, and its opposite, impatience, with having it.
Think for a moment about how you feel when you’re in a situation that’s not your responsibility but that bothers you. Think about the times you talked to someone you love. How do you feel when someone makes you wait for work, love or family?
Is waiting a challenge? And even more so when you consider that patience is seen as a weakness, because most of the time it is confused with resignation or apathy.
However, conscious patience has nothing to do with it, it is more courage and courage, hope and long-term vision, it is rebelling against difficulty, but in a way that we are not used to.
To know how to wait is to protect yourself from the possibility of the immediate and to be able to go through unfavourable situations without falling apart. Anyone who has patience as a friend is well aware of the pitfalls of impulsivity and its consequences. , you will master your passions, your tendency to the relentless pursuit of pleasure and immediate need.
Waiting tells us that everything is impossible and dangerous, thinking about understanding and prioritizing are important attitudes, as well as spending time on yourself, asking you what you want and where you are going, observing the path in perspective.
This is only possible through the practice of patience, this ability to carefully evaluate, be calm and not be obscured by the sound of necessity and pleasure.
To be patient is not to get carried away by circumstances, but to know how to act at the right time, to choose and surrender with peace of mind, to learn at the rhythm of life.
“Speed is the form of ecstasy that technical revolution has given man [?] Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared ???Kundera?