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Finding Your Own Example of Patience

Creator: @SoulfullyAButterfly

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In the box below, describe a classic story of patience, maybe from a children’s story, religious passage, or movie plot:

  1. Explain the situation and why the character chose to act with patience, either in refraining from acting with impatience or accepting things as beyond their control. How did the act of patience benefit their situation? 
  2. Was this primarily for the person’s own benefit, for the benefit of others, or out of religious or spiritual conviction? 
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Created by @Unknown

I’m recalling the fable of the tortoise and the hare, or turtle and rabbit. And the tale of the grasshopper and the ants. In the tortoise and the hare the tortoise ends up winning a race between them both because the rabbit went so quickly it stopped halfway through for a nap. It overslept and the tortoise walked right by it and won. “Slow and steady wins the race”. This means that we can try rush through life, but ultimately if we aren’t going at our own pace and doing one thing at a time, life will pass us by. In the fable of the ant and grasshopper, the ants work during the summer as the grasshopper watches them bemused as to why they’re working so hard during such balmy days. Grasshopper laughs at them working day after day while relaxing in the heat. Then winter shows up and the grasshopper is freezing and starving with no food, threadbare clothes and nothing but an old matchbox for a home. A bit intense but I guess they speak to the importance of being present and doing for yourself...showing up and speaking up for yourself and not letting a propensity to do too much or too little destroy your comfort or environment. Hopefully that makes sense.