LIFE: Patience

We spend our lives looking to others, trying to copy their success stories, while not understanding why the same could not work for us, or cursing their good luck: the bestselling Self-Help books are a no-go, your mum casting up the impeccable grades of the neighbor whom you hate, in a bid to motivate you doesn’t help-and you end up even more bitter, internalizing all the anger and frustration.

However, as Carl Jung says, ‘The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases’, similarly, we each need to be allowed the freedom to make our mistakes, be given the courage to face our faults, yet not let them bring you down by needless and futile comparisons with vastly different Others, and as the Bible instructs us: “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed”, therefore teaching us an important lesson in patience, contentment and belief.

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