Patience

Some guys have all the luck,

Some guys have all the pain,

Some guys get all the breaks,

Some guys do nothing but complain.

So sang one Rod Stewart many (many) moons ago. Most on this site are old enough to have remembered the song.

But it is certainly true. We are each of us different in our own unique ways. Some of us did indeed get all the breaks, whilst others of us have all the pain (or so it seems).

Luck is certainly a game of chance. Some of us will be blessed enough to have a lot of it go our way, some will never have the luck. But what is important is not whether you have the luck, it’s more based on what you do with it. You can be the luckiest person in the world, forever winning any number of competitions or lotteries in life. Or you could be somebody for whom everything in life just fell into your lap and you have lived a life of wealth and comfort. But money (or luck) does not buy you happiness. That takes some effort on your part.

At our stage of life, we all carry baggage of some sort. For some the baggage is very traumatic, for others it is very pleasant. But it is baggage all the same. Baggage of the life we used to have.

That’s where the wisdom of our years should come in. We are wise enough to know that not everyone we might meet has such happy memories of their past life. For many, they carry scars (sometimes mental, othertimes physical) and those scars require time to heal.

I guess what I am saying is that just because somebody might not match up to your ideal potential partner, that does not mean that they could not be your perfect partner.

So when you finally meet that special person. Just bear in mind that they may not have had a good a life as you may have had. It’s just possible that person needs a bit of patience before they become the person you would like them to be, or deserve to have.

Patience is not only a virtue, it can often be the gift that keeps giving. Lend a caring ear to that person. Give them the chance to breathe and flower and they could still turn into the person of your dreams. They have simply forgotten (or in some cases been abused) to forget what they once were and what they still are and could be, given the chance.

Be the one that makes the difference and you could be the one to make them whole again. In time, they could make you realise that they are the missing piece you have always been searching for.