So the subject of this blog is a bit of an accident. As I have mentioned before, I work at a grocery store as a bagger, and one of my jobs is to bring in carts. We are sent out in hour increments to bring in carts. So for one of my hours of carts today, I was out there thinking about what I could write a blog about, because really, there was nothing else I could do. So as I was thinking, I decided I could write about passion, but I couldn't think of the word passion, I could think of passionate, but every time I tried to figure out the base word, I said patience. Then I realized, passion was patience.
So let me explain. Passion will become nothing if you do not have the patience to see it through to the end. For example, I have the desire to become a doctor. So what turns that desire into a passion, the answer is quite simply the patience (no pun intended). I can say I want to be a doctor all I want, but if I don't have the patience to see me through my undergraduate and graduate degree, then it will never happen, and then was it really a passion, or just a dream. The answer is that it was just a dream.
Now I know that patience is something we all struggle with. I can't wait to finish my books and share them. I am passionate about them, and want to share them, but it will take much hard work and patience to finally have one ready to share. It will probably take working full time, attending school full time, writing and publishing my books ful time inorder to pay for medical school. It won't be easy, but that is my passion, so that is what I will do.
Passion comes from the Latin verb patere, which means to suffer. Patience means to accept or tolerate suffering ( among other things, like delay but you get the point). Knowing this, my link between passion and patience makes even more sense. No one wants to suffer. As a human being, it is in our nature to run away from pain and suffering. When we touch a hot stove, our body instinctively pulls away. If passion is suffering for a goal we have, then we need to pair this with patience in order to achieve the goal of the passion.
Passion is patience. Passion is having the patience to endure the trials so we can reach the goal. It probably won't be on the timeline that we want, in fact I can almost guarantee that it won't be, but if you have th faith, the passion, and the patience, and you put in the hard work necessary, if you withstand the suffering, you will get there, eventually.