The root meaning of patience is pati, to suffer. Ouch. I don't like to suffer. What do I do to avoid patience? I get angry at everything and everyone that bothers my tranquility or my plans for life, my life. Or I try to escape into fantasy, mindless entertainment, shopping, even workaholism. Sometimes hobbies can become an escape. At my best, I try not to be concerned about the externals of a situation, as how do I respond to it. This is where patience comes in for me. And yes, it can feel like a suffering, or else it is not patience but rather quiet anger, condemnation of others in my mind. I have come to see that patience, though a suffering, is the lesser suffering than quiet anger. I never drank over patience.
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