“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
Patience is a very difficult thing to cultivate. I can honestly say that I am, in the standard realm, a pretty patient person. I have a seven-year-old daughter who can’t phase me one bit. I have three (yes, three) big, crazy dogs who I am capable of keeping my cool with in even the most ridiculous of moments. I have a deadline-driven career that forces me to be patient and to take the time to get things done efficiently, even when I want to race through (the old measure twice, cut once rule.) Under the most insane twists and turns of life, it is very difficult to unnerve me. But while these situations require a certain modicum of unshakeable cool, the everyday moments aren’t necessarily the true test of patience and composure.