How do you get over someone when you see them constantly talking to other guys, constantly out and about and beig invited out by your friends…
Answer.
You don’t. You sit there and just take the shit that comes with it.
It’s almost the ultimate form of masochism.
I guess you hurt and hurt until it doesn’t hurt anymore.
Oh gosh I missed writing. So here we go.
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There’s been a long standing phrase which we all no doubt have heard. This phrase being “patience is a virtue”. For a long time, I never actually thought about this phrase closely until a short while ago. But why is it such a striking phrase? How can patience be held in high esteem as a virtue, when clearly there are instances where it’s clearly a vice. It’s a very interesting phrase and I think that it is a virtue. A very important one.
Before I go onto talking about patience as a virtue, I need to postulate something about ‘time’. If we didn’t have a conception of time, I believe patience would cease to exist. The whole premise of patience is founded (I believe) upon time. Now, onto what I think…
When you ‘exhibit’ or ‘express’ patience, you are giving up time. As we all know, time is very limited, it is finite. And to give up that finite time is almost a self-sacrifice. You are essentially giving a piece of your timeline on this earth up for something/someone. You could say that ‘oh, but hanging with your friends and stuff is all giving up your time!’ but with patience it’s different. You are either willing or not willing to give up your time but you still do it anyway. Not for hanging out with your friends, but for waiting.
When you wait, for something or someone that is time given up. To find a person who is willing to give up their time is extraordinary. Think about it this way, imagine someone’s existence as a countdown. But as the countdown depletes, you would think that people would just ‘make the most’ of the time that they have, but the patient person is willing to spend some of that time waiting and being patient. Someone is giving a part of their life, a part of their time for you or for something else.
I should really say that the patient person will always have good intentions when they wait. That’s what makes them patient. If a person waits but does not have good intentions then they cannot be a patient person since the outcome is negative and it only really is benefiting them.
I think my point is that not only patience is a virtue, but to appreciate the people who are patient. In my own experiences, there are a lot of people I should appreciate, but due to one reason or another, I can’t.
Never take a patient person for granted. They give up a part of themselves that can never be replaced. Their time and existence.
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“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see your cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.” — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via glaiza-bm)
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“Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch.” — Harry Palmer (via julie911)
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” — Voltaire (via slekes)
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“Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of geniuses that might be doing something brilliant, but instead are putting stickers on packets of biscuits they can barely afford for 12 hours a day so some lazy prick can play golf every Sunday with all the other impotent do nothing pricks.” — Ourben: (via theorthodoxheretic)
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