Patience is a virtue

One of the most important qualities in life is to have patience. Many learned men and women have already preached us about this vital quality everyone should possess. But in this fast paced life, who has the time for patience? Especially, with the advent of ultra-fast fibernet, whatsapping, and trying to change the world with a few tweets and clicks, having patience is not so cool, these days!

But recently I experienced a good lesson of being patience. We see nowadays, people change their jobs as if they change clothes. Everyone wants to move on, and grow fast as if things will happen only now, and we are bombarded with the catchy words like , This is the Time, Time is Money and Now or Never etc etc.

So, what happened is few weeks back I got a text from a friend, who told me about the new job opportunity in her company. That company has been a very good MNC which I knew. So, naturally, I became excited about the new role, and how should i prepare for interview etc. She told me that it would be interesting position, and it would be good for my career. But at the same time, I knew that even though my current job has not been that great, but its only been very less time since I joined my current role. I am simply not in a position to judge my role and performance in a span of few months.

Hence, I thought for sometime, and took a conscious decision to not look for any job switch atleast for a few weeks. I did feel that what if I lose that once in a lifetime opportunity, and what happens then? Will I regret for it later? But then I told her my decision and got immersed back in my job. And few weeks later, I got to know from her that she had been thinking to leave that job, and to my surprise, she even has an offer from my company for some other position!

She later told me that there were a lot of org changes and she even had to work for long hours ( often late night ) in her job. That’s why she wanted to join my company. After this experience, I learnt a valuable lesson: That we dont need to run after things just because the grass is more greener there. Sometimes, we have to take a pause and look at ourselves, and ask a question, that do we really need a change so fast? Are we taking that decision just because someone told us and are we being carried away by the ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ drama thought? Because many times, our heart is the perfect judge to provide us the answers for our dilemma. It knows what we want and when do we want. Its far better to have patience, and wait, rather than hurry and then later worry for the hasty decision taken. This is what I learnt from this small event .

I hope the reader might have enjoyed this article and stay connected for the next article. I plan to write regularly here onwards, with the focus to share small tidbits of life experiences, joys and sorrows. After all, this blog is intended to be my voice to the world for writing and sharing.