I feel like I always hear about how "life is too short" and if you want something you should go out and get it. I've never been good at waiting. Waiting in lines, waiting for my food, waiting for my grade on a test. All of it. It's just not my thing. Everyone always seems so busy and so touch and go, we really don't take the time to just be. We are too worried about other things, things down the road, or overlooking what seem to be meaningless or tedious tasks. In today's day and age it seems like a common occurrence that we let the little things get to us. It's suddenly okay to stress about waiting in lines, or sitting in traffic. Taking time to breathe and just be with ourselves has seemed to vanish.

There is a reason why patience is such a hard thing to come by.

I know more times than not I get frustrated with school. My classes are long, the teachers don't teach to my liking, and I am constantly buried in work. I want to rush through it all and be done, but I stop to realize that my time and effort is now. If I become impatient and blow off school, what am I doing to my future? I would much rather look back years from now and be proud of all my hard work, and how I cherished my time in college, learning as much as I can. It is difficult to remember my hard work when I am buried in work, and staying in the library late at night while everyone else seems to be hanging out, or enjoying their weekend. I just want everything to be done...but then what? If we just accomplished everything in a snap of a finger, what would life actually be? If I could snap my fingers and be to the front of the line, or not have to sit in traffic, maybe I wouldn't meet some of my friends, or I may not have gotten to see the beautiful flowers on the side of the road. There is a reason why we can't always have everything all at once. What helps me to have patience is knowing that everything happens for a reason. I am where I am supposed to be. So if I have to sit in class 5 minutes after it lets out because the teacher won't stop talking, I know its for a reason.

Patience is all about hard work, and not stressing when the littlest thing goes wrong. College kids already have mounds of stressful situations in their lives, working on being patient just lifts a weight off everyone's shoulders. Be patient. It's the key to a happy life.