Fast paced work lifestyle, a life that is so quick that you barely enjoy every corner of it. Expensive products & services and a low salary received in comparison to cover for your needs. This consequently gives Millennials the feeling that never changes, shaky grounds. We almost never feel secure about things which leads to the hope of making so much money. But, the thought continues I HAVE TO MAKE MILLIONS / BILLIONS before I become 30. Given this high paced environment, a delusion is created that you are running out of time. So suddenly, cryptocurrencies are created and everyone including myself starts investing. I won’t lie, I almost made three times what I invested, but I saw the graph on an upward scale, there were no rules for the game. Boom, it spiraled back to lower than when we first started.
Short gains are very luring and it has probably lured humans since our very first moment of existence. But for our generation we are fixated on a zero patience policy. We want to get promoted really quickly. We want to create a website or software and make a lot of money. Even our social volunteers are plagued and want to change the world now. We want global warming to stop NOW NOW. We want endangered species to thrive NOW NOW. We want the whole world to stop smoking NOW NOW. Short tempered, short sighted, short vision-ed, realistic with almost no room of imagination.
Increasing your patience from your diminishing default mode that is a direct reaction to technology can be done with certain hobbies. They are the ones where a lot of practice makes it possible to see progress and where stages are existent. Painting is the first, especially for those who don’t know how to paint. It takes a while to draw the sketch, then from sketch you go to painting with a lot of mistakes to be fixed. A final painting will almost be done in a month or so, that of course is after the months spent on learning how to draw in the first place. The second is music, because learning an instrument takes a really long time and even after learning, playing a song with zero mistakes is a lot of effort. Each song practice could take from a few hours up to a few days, even weeks for some of Mozart’s work. Finally, reading is one of the best patient testing hobbies and you actually might gain a thing or two. Seeing the pages of the book become less & less allows the mind to see the progress made over time.
Patience is a virtue
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