Patient with Life

Oftentimes, we are told to cultivate the habit of patience within ourselves. However, we are left confused at the idea of achieving high or being given the option to run the race with others to be better in any field. The contrast between being told to run the race and simultaneously told to slow down. 

I have always heard my mother tell me to have patience. At times, we just don’t want to be patient enough because there is a lack of appreciation from our side for the small milestones that we reach everyday. I was a people-pleaser and I needed this constant urge to strive to be "good enough" in somebody’s eyes. I spent my teens doing it and now that I am adulting. It seems like I don’t want to go back to pleasing people.  It seems more of a job than just a habit to me. 

Over the years, I was broken from within, at my lowest, and lost all the will to live the life I wanted to live. At that moment,  I never thought about how things will drastically change for me. At my lowest, I was given no choice but to trust in the process. The changes were slow and gradual but it was still progressing. Now five years later, I am in a much better place.

They always say that time will heal all the wounds. However, my wounds were never instantly healed but I am in a place where I was guided to help myself become a better version of myself. Over the years, life has taught me many things and one of them was having faith and patience with life. 

These were my thoughts today. I needed a place to share them.