I’m nineteen years old and impatient. The young are naturally impatient. The old are naturally more patient. What the young need most is patience.

I recognise this. A good analogy of the way patience feels like for me now, is this phrase:

“God give me patience, and give it to me right now!”

Patience is necessary.

Patience is valuable.

Patience leverages time—our greatest asset.

We are so used to having things right now.
Patience is contrary to what we are used to.

You gain patience with time. But that seems like a waste of time. Trading time for patience?

And yet, you cannot accelerate the process. You need to let it happen. How frustrating for a young mind to grasp. Always wanting to go faster.

You can’t buy patience. You can only gain patience with time.

Our perception of time is different for one another.

When you talk to a fifty year old, to him nineteen years isn’t much. Talk with an eighty year old and it’s even less. If you complain about something taking a couple years, they laugh. One year to me is over 5% of my life. One year to them is 2% and 1,25% respectively. That is significantly faster.

Time is necessary to make great things.

Trust that your efforts will pay off over time.