The Virtues of Impatience

The Virtues of Impatience

 

I’ve written and spoken quite a lot about how Patience is one of the universal life lessons – the ones that we all need to learn.  When you can be patient the rewards are many.  All things come to those who wait, etc.

But according to the Law of Polarity, nothing exists without an opposite thing also existing.  Two sides to a sheet of paper; an apparent bad thing also being a good thing when viewed from a different perspective.  Light and Dark.  So it is that impatience also has its place.

We all know that the only way to change our circumstances is to… well, change our circumstances.  Change is a given.  But we want to control change to create transformation.

We also have been told to be patient, to live in the now and accept “Divine timing”.  Sounds good, except for one tiny detail: we are the Divine!  We co-create that timeline.  Not just the universe, not God nor the angels.  The degree of participation we get to exercise in that timeline depends on real, concrete action.

Now as little fractal images of Source, we reflect all that is God; and God, of course has all the time in the Universe and literally infinite patience.  The God part of us just wants to express our Divinity, and that part of us is timeless.

BUT in our human form (which we assume in order to have experiences), we get 80 years or so if we’re lucky.  So if our bodies are designed to be finite and eventually obsolete, right there is a timeline cast in stone.

Given that we all have huge potential because of our Divinity, there’s simply no way that we can be expected to develop all that we’re capable of in one short span of time; hence, reincarnation.  But not doing the maximum with any given lifetime is a waste.  It’s like the ultimate procrastination: “oh well, I really was a loser this time around, but I’ll surely make it up next lifetime.”  NO!  What you do when you’re young determines how you live when you’re old.  What you do in this lifetime determines how you’ll live in the next.

So.  Baby steps have their place – it would be rather traumatic to change everything in one day, say.  But as the MC5 sang, sometimes you’ve just got to kick out the jams, mofo!  You will get where you want to be by shuffling along for 50 years, pecking this way and that for the trail of crumbs.  Or you can finally realize that you have wings and take off.

The closest city to me is 25 miles away if I drive it.  But measured on the map, it’s more like 10 miles.  It’s frustrating sometimes that I have to spend all of that time traveling, but I can’t physically fly there.  (When oh when will they invent a Star Trek-like transporter?!).  But in my life in general, I don’t need to walk or drive the whole path an inch at a time.  I can make some tiny internal changes, like getting over fears – and yeah, that can take some time, but again we’re the ones who determine how long that takes.  What would happen if we just decided to DO IT?  I’m saying that slowly, patiently prying that door open to the next opportunity is only one way to go.  You can also just decide that it’s time.

You’ll never, ever, ever be 100% ready for anything.  You”ll only be ready enough; and again, you get to determine that.

Go ahead and think, plan, plot, learn and scheme.  But at some point you need to act… and there’s nothing wrong with acting out of frustration and impatience if that’s what it takes to get you up off your butt and do something about it!  Even if it’s crazy, wild, something that no one would expect from you in a million years.  In fact, crazy and wild can often be the best way to go.

Wear a Bozo wig.  Do a cartwheel.  Go to your boss and tell him you’re worth more than he’s giving you.  Maybe all three at once.  Channel that impatience with your  life into action.

You never know – your boss could be a big  Bozo fan.