The popular sayings and quotations advocate that "patience is a virtue", or "good things come to those who wait". And so it is true in many things. Patience is needed when baking a pie, waiting for a picture to develop, or a letter to arrive. There is no amount of pacing, action, or coaxing that will make these things go faster.
Is patience always the right remedy though? Are we forever expected to sit patiently and wait for whatever it is that is supposed to happen next? Is there such a thing as too much patience? What if we wait to long and the thing we were waiting for passes like a whisper without us ever knowing it was there.
At some point, with some things, it seems that patience is a weakness. Waiting for the universe to put the pieces together, instead of working to find the ones that fit by yourself.
When is it time to stop being patient, to stop waiting, to stop expecting that what is meant to happen will happen on it's own? When is it time to take the initiative and make your future? Start the fire? At least point yourself in a direction...even if it isn't the right one...at least you would be traveling. Making progress.
At what point is patience no longer the virtue. No longer the right answer.
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