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Patience
While reflecting on our need for patience, I was reminded of a scene from a movie. To me, it illustrates our need for patience and how easy it is to lose it.
In the movie Million Dollar Arm, JB is a player agent from America who is in a slump and in need of a new market. He decides to look for a baseball pitcher among the cricket players in India by having a contest. It’s a wonderful movie based on a true story.
When JB arrives in India nothing works out as he planned, and everything moves at a snail’s pace. He has an assistant named Vivek who is helping him set up all the events. Multiple things are going wrong for JB and in frustration he says what many of us have said,
“You know what, Vivek, I’m starting to lose patience with this whole plan of yours.”
Vivek smiles knowingly with this sound advice for JB as well as all of us who are parents,
“Don’t lose patience JB, you’re gonna need it!”
Sound advice for all of us. Having patience is a choice. Losing ours is also a choice.
So choose wisely.
In the movie Million Dollar Arm, JB is a player agent from America who is in a slump and in need of a new market. He decides to look for a baseball pitcher among the cricket players in India by having a contest. It’s a wonderful movie based on a true story.
When JB arrives in India nothing works out as he planned, and everything moves at a snail’s pace. He has an assistant named Vivek who is helping him set up all the events. Multiple things are going wrong for JB and in frustration he says what many of us have said,
“You know what, Vivek, I’m starting to lose patience with this whole plan of yours.”
Vivek smiles knowingly with this sound advice for JB as well as all of us who are parents,
“Don’t lose patience JB, you’re gonna need it!”
Sound advice for all of us. Having patience is a choice. Losing ours is also a choice.
So choose wisely.
