November 1, 2024

PATIENCE

MJF; M. Anastasia Brand, M. Florence Harder; Theresia Strunk Deutschland

NOVEMBER

To be good, you also need a bit of time. J. K.

 

PATIENCE

Actually, I know it is not prudent to respond immediately to a remark or to an E-Mail that angers me. I wish I had the attitude my grandmother had in her old age – when life had long been reduced to the really important questions.

“Come on, let it go,”

she would often brush away topics that would have upset her in earlier years. That was not resignation. That was serenity!

To be good, you also need a bit of time: time to grow and to mature.

Time to pause, so that a feeling for the right reaction can grow. Time to sort emotions instead of giving in to first impulses. Sometimes it helps to “sleep on it” for a night. It puts some things into perspective – and something that was upsetting may even become a good idea.