Things have been very stressful lately and it’s getting into
me already. I’m pressured at work and it feels like the things that I want, the
things that I worked hard for are not materializing. I’m getting frustrated
already until a famous cliché popped into my head:
“Good things come to those who wait”
It got me thinking. They say patience is a virtue and you
just have to wait for the right time for things to happen and materialize. I
asked myself, “How long must one wait for it to be considered waiting?”
While I’m trying to convince myself that I should wait a
little longer, I thought to myself, I can’t just sit here and wait for things
to happen. If I really want something, I must work hard for it.
The good thing about waiting is that it allows us to
exercise our patience and to contemplate if we really want what we thought we
want and it helps us become open to other opportunities. Some people think that
if we rush things, we just set ourselves up for a failure and no one would want
a result that is half-cooked; we want the fruits of our labour be well-done
that’s why we have to patiently wait. On the other hand, the downside of
waiting for too long is that, we tend to become passive since we believe that
if things are meant to be, it will be and it will come in its own time. We begin
to stop working hard and just go with the flow until we realize that we’ve
already wasted plenty of our time waiting.
Good things come to those who wait but better things come to
those who want it so bad they can’t wait. I realized I’m in my 20’s now and if
I am lucky, I can stay here on earth for another 60 years and 60 years is just 3,120
weeks. I can’t afford to waste a week just waiting for something to happen. If
I really want it, I must think of other ways to make it into reality. And I’m
only in my 20’s; I don’t have much to lose. I’m in my prime years and it’s the
perfect time to take smart risks. If I fail, I can always get up and start
over. At least I can say to myself that I tried my best and didn’t just wait. I
won’t have any regrets because I took chances.
Not choosing to wait is not the same as rushing things. It’s
just that often times, we should take our shot at destiny and make the most of
the time we have. We don’t just have to wait for things to happen. While it’s
not yet the right time, we should work harder, prepare ourselves and learn as
much as we can. So when the right time comes, we can tell ourselves, “I wanted
this and I deserve this. I worked hard for this and I didn’t just wait.”
Ask yourself, Am I gonna wait?
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