"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Oh, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I dearly hope you are right. I mean, sure, I have experienced such a fruit from the bitterest of patience but is it always true? I suppose it probably is although we can never be sure what seed we have sewn until it grows and produces the fruit-- for both apples and pears are sweet.
So what has called my attention to patience? Oh, just about everything that goes on in my life, to be honest. From school to work, from my calling to my more personal relationships... I cannot help but feel that more oftener than not, each of these are up in the air simultaneously and I have to find the best possible way and order in which to catch them lest the heaviest fall faster than I anticipate and thus miss the mark.
I am finding, however, that more and more people seem to be excelling at this virtue especially in regards to me. It warms me from within when someone takes the time to talk things out with me regarding one thing or another so that I might do better in my service and can also understand the direction in which they are traveling and have invited me to partake in.
I have been told to work on my patience and work I have although some may not see the fruits of my labors. Trust me, they are great and I am glad to see where I have come from and who I have the gumption and possibility of being in the end.
Now that I have had my rant, this weekend was a tad long but worth it. One of my best friends got married to the man of her dreams and I am glad to see what life has in store for them. I also had the chance to catch up with an old high school friend of mine and share in some news that was a long time coming.
Someone was definitely looking out for me when as I was attempting to get through airport security that I had remembered to pack my student ID (though, since I would not be working, I had no expected use for it). Turns out that this time they actually caught and told me that my license had expired earlier on this year. The first time going through... oooh the lady was mean. I felt so very, very small as she explained to my "simpleton" self that it was a big problem. I was prompted to ask if my college student ID would do... it did and, after sternly and coldly telling me I ought to get an updated ID, she let me through.
The guy on the way back smiled kindly when I asked if my student ID would help and he told me it was good of me to have both for without both he would not have been able to let me on but again reminded me that I should probably take care of it as soon as I could.
So yes... I need to get to the DMV even if I have to ride the wild bus.
Aside from that little... glitch... it went quite well and I feel that it was just what I needed before plunging into the coming Utah winter. Do not misunderstand, I am still not looking forward to all the snow and cold ahead of me but it will be a little more bearable since I got a small break from the bubble, if you will.
Now onto the question that I do not feel like answering, in all honesty, but will anyway-- What popular notion do you think the world has the most wrong?
That "we were born this way" or in other words "God made me this way on purpose". It may work for some things (aka actual mental or physical disorders) but I disagree when it comes to same gender attraction. Now I am not saying that there isn't a predisposition in some of us to lean more toward our gender rather than the opposite, but it is a choice whether you act on it or not.
Some people have a tendency to obesity, diabetes, alcoholism, and other addictions but it all depends on your choice. Now, beyond the choice you make, that is your own agency working for you and I hope it makes you happy in some way, but it is not something you "just are". It is either something you are willing to fight against or something that you give into because it is simply easier that way.
I do have gay friends, I will admit, but I do believe it is their choice out of their predisposition. Because I have heard and seen those who have chosen to fight against it and find their own happiness either on their own or with a spouse of the opposite gender and a family of their own.
A few heavy thoughts and word, I realize, but I am not ashamed of what I have said.
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