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A new blog to contain answers to prompts
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas Open in new Window. became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.


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To spread good will and hope all around.


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November 7, 2024 at 11:49am
November 7, 2024 at 11:49am
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Prompt:
"Patience is learned through waiting."
Eyen A. Gardner
Write about this in your Blog entry today


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Yes, but the waiting is so difficult! I wasn't born to be a patient person, even and especially with myself. Yet, I got better at it over the years...I think.

So let's look at this learned patience. Learned patience is not simply a passive endurance but a kind of emotional quickness. It happens when we learn to focus out attention and energies on what we can control while letting go off what we cannot.

The problem with waiting is that constant slap of uncertainty and sometimes frustration. Yet, waiting encourages mindfulness. In mindful moments, we might find ourselves more aware of our surroundings, options, feelings, and thoughts. In short, waiting invites us to live in the present moment. This means we learn to endure and feel gratitude for those things positive in life. This means learning humility.

While I am at it, I am going to mention something that got on my nerves a bit during the last two days. It is the reactions of some to US elections. I believe it doesn't matter for whom I cast my vote and for whom you cast yours. This country's ways are based upon the majority rule. We all have to learn to accept that rule. Otherwise, there are other places on earth where a person from the USA will be accepted with open arms. If that option is out for you also, you have to learn patience and stop carping about this outcome. For your own good, to start with.

Your complaints, fears, and cries all over the internet is not doing any good to you or to the USA. What I'm saying is that, just wait and see. Maybe there will be instances where you can help avoid something negative or help with something positive. Rather than rushing to a possible or impossible terrible end with your thoughts and feelings, wait and do your best. As you'll find out, your patience will provide its own reward. A reward to you, to us, and to everyone else around us, but mostly to the USA and the world.





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