Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
My husband will vehemently disagree with me but I think one of the best gifts I’ve received is patience. He will argue that I am the most impatient person. Well, yeah, when we’re at the grocery store and I’m ready to be done and go home but the self checkout is too sensitive and accuses me of not bagging what I just scanned. That’s when my “fussy” side shows, as he calls it.
But when I was a teacher, parents told me all the time how patient I was. They often said they would have already lost their patience with the kids. To be fair, sometimes I did too. They’re kids. And they have bad days like anybody else. But it was rare. Teaching was something I always wanted to do, so when I did it, I just accepted the things that would have driven other people crazy. I didn’t excuse those things, but I dealt with them appropriately and calmly.
Now that I’m not a teacher anymore, I still have some of that patience. My hobbies of knitting and crocheting are certainly examples of that.
Honestly though, that gift might be fading. As I have been healing from past traumas, I am quite impatient with the process. Whereas I say it’s been more than 6 months since I left my job, why does it still bother me, my therapist says, it hasn’t even been a year.
I think that shows that I’m patient with external things…other people’s kids, hobbies I enjoy…But when it comes to myself, I want to hurry up and be done with all of the mental work I need to do. I will say though, this journey of figuring out who I am is really delightful. I’m enjoying it! I’ll stay on this ride as long as it takes!
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