Patience Pays

The lesson of patience is not easy to understand and learn. It takes time as well as a lot of brains. You may have seen people who are consistently working hard and seem to be of compromising types. They seem to be aloof what is happening around themselves and behave as if they don't care. Even if somebody says harsh words or ridicules them, they don't mind.

To a person who is always willing to fight for his cause may find such people meek and sometimes coward.

I would like to share one incident on this behaviour. There was an inter college tennis tournament organised at my college. Many students from various colleges participated along with the players of my own college. The players of my college had won the last championship so they were bubbling with confidence.

The tournament started .My college mates were winning the initial matches. Then we saw a new entrant from a different college. He was fat enough to roll like a ball if he fell on the ground. The other disadvantage was, the sport's venue and the crowd was not his own. I don't remember if anybody came to cheer him.

He turned out to be a marvelous player as his shots found no resistance from any player. What reminds me most of him was that my college mates made all funny jokes and slogans around his waist girth and his small mistakes but there was a "WALL" that stood amongst us that time. The guy played with a sincere heart.

To amuse us sometimes he used to smile at our comments.

The matches went on and so did the discouraging statements for the guy. Even my college mates didn't want to give up. And off course how could they take some other persons side when our champions were there on the court.

By the semifinals, there were some surprises in the slogan deliveries. After every hooting statement there was also a funny apology.

In the finals the guy won and all in the audience were in full praise for the guy, not only for his "great match' but also for his "great attitude".

If you believe in yourself you should have the patience to stay with the beleif.Sometimes it is matter of seconds, sometimes years and sometimes a matter of lifetime.

Patience always pays. It should be made a habit. It is something that is sometimes in your genes only if you are lucky but sometimes it has to be cultivated with a "never say die attitude".

I will come back with some more stories.

Why not "you" make one.

Happy reading.