| Pay
attention today to the way you treat yourself. If you frequently become
impatient with yourself, will you be able to avoid being impatient with others?
Impatience with ourselves may not necessarily stem
from a desire to become better because of our love for God.
Instead, it often stems from the fact that we
allow our faults to bruise our egos. It is the bruised ego that cries out
with impatience whenever it catches itself in a mistake.
Impatience with ourselves is just another way in
which we foolishly waste a lot of our energy on nothing at all.
The more we brood about our human condition, the
less energy we have for the constructive activities and projects that add
meaning to our lives.
People who are impatient with themselves take
themselves too seriously. The next time you make an irritating mistake,
try laughter.
Wise people know how to laugh at themselves, and
in the laughter they learn to accept their mistakes while preserving a sense of
self-worth and healthy self-love. |
