Nowadays, many of us are reliant upon our GPS to help get us from place to place, and though we always are ultimately in charge as to whether or not we strictly follow such directional advice, it’s nice to know that GPS has our back. The other very nice thing about GPS is the fact that unlike a human being or a backseat driver, the GPS doesn’t ever yell at us, it doesn’t call us stupid, it doesn’t berate us, but is instead endlessly patient, and willing to “reroute” us to our destination, should we miss our turn or make a mistake. There is indeed, something to be learned about all this, which is that if we all took it to heart, would be helpful, of which being patient and not belittling one another, most definitely makes for a better situation, than losing our cool with one another.
In life, we all are going to take wrong turns, and many of us will not directly get to the destination that we are supposed to get to, so then when we make mistakes, often it does not prove helpful, to be yelled at, or to be looked down upon, in which those sorts of attitudes take what is already not a good situation, and simply makes it worse. That is to say, of course, it’s frustrating when we make mistakes, or when it is pointed out to us that we are mistaken, but when a mistake has been made, there isn’t any good reason for the problem to be compounded, by being yelled at or screamed at, when the situation does not truly call for that sort of reaction.
What many people like about GPS, besides its accuracy, is that it performs its job on behalf of us, without ever losing its patience with us, and is forever forgiving of mistakes or detours that we have made. There is a lot in life to be said, about our need to be patient with one another, but also to recognize that because we all make mistakes as well as misjudgments, that we would be better served then by representing calmness in those situations, which don’t require us to overreact to something that isn’t all that critical, to begin with. That is to say, if more of us would simply recognize that we are going to have those inevitable missteps, then we would be in a better frame of mind, to not waste our time judging such missteps harshly, but rather we would be much better off, by adjusting to what happened, so as to continue to keep our eye on the mission, above all.
The thing about impatience is how frequently such impatience is not the appropriate response to a given situation that seems to have gone in the wrong direction. In other words, the impatience that we exhibit typically is a rather poor response to a given situation, in which, we would be far better served by recognizing that not only will we never be perfect, but oftentimes it isn’t even necessary to be perfect to ultimately get to the destination that we desire, successfully.