Patience
Patience is a virtue practised by many, but comes naturally to only some. It's a known fact that patience isn't the easiest of traits to adopt, but it's equally easy to forget just how relative the definition of patience can be. To a soldier's wife, it may mean waiting for years on end before her other half walks through the front door. To an eager student, it may mean waiting anxiously as s/he opens up a college response letter. It could mean an exhausted yet enthusiastic to-be father pacing the hospital corridors, waiting to hear the cries of his very own baby; then again, it could mean a frightened daughter pacing those same hospital corridors waiting to know if her father survived the accident. It's all really relative, and although we may not realize it, each one of us certainly has a bit of patience lying somewhere within us.
To me, patience means gulping down things that aren't that easy to swallow, and then, patiently waiting for the reward.
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