Patience and Time

[646 words] Patience and time are closely related, since being patient implies being able to remain calm and not be annoyed when waiting for a long time. As children our sense of time develops along with our other understandings of the physical world in which we currently live, but it does not take too long for small children to develop the desire to get what they want immediately and a definite impatience when required to wait. While I cannot recall too much about the time prior to beginning school, I certainly remember what seemed to me to be endless hours in school, when I wished that the day would zoom by. On the other hand, the amount of time on summer vacation—or even holiday weekends—seems, even today, to be gone all too quickly. I suspect that you can recall vacations that, when you planned them, appeared as though they would…