Patience is a Virtue

It is often said that patience is a virtue. Well, I certainly hope so. I have always trusted that time takes care of itself and that eventually you will reach your destiny. I suppose it is essentially believing in fate.

However, I do have major reservations about a blind trust in fate, as that does harbour the suggestion that there is no point in doing anything because it is all mapped out anyway. That is not really what I mean.

I am nowhere near reaching my destiny yet but it honestly does not worry me. I am not married, I do not have a career and I am in a job that bores me. I live in a place, where I do not want to live and at face value, I appear to be surrounded by very few prospects.

Depressing?  No. Worrying  No. Surprising?  Yes. I was a bright kid in school and very successful academically. I very nearly went to Oxford, but I bungled the interview. I think there was pretty much a universal assumption that I was set to be a high-flyer.

Liam "The Scholar"

A high-flyer, I am not, but I cannot complain, as I have never been driven by the desire for money. Fundamentally, I think it is the cause of so many ills. We would be better off without it.

I have also been a talented sportsman and athlete. I never made the big-time in sports but I have done what I wanted. I have competed at a high level in a variety of disciplines and I have indulged myself in them at the time I believed I should. I always wanted to do sport as much as I could while I was young.

Liam "The Athlete"

I am thirty-two years old but I am the youngest thirty-two year old I know. I have an active mind and an active body. There are so many people I see who are successful in certain areas but I would not trade places with them. Some are dull, others angry. I see sad people, mad people and bad people. There are also unhealthy people, stupid people and dishonest people. They all have their own destiny. It is not mine.

Something that I have always hated in society is how people seem to live in boxes. So many live in boxes both literally, in terms of modern housing developments and metaphorically, as in “this is my life, I must just accept it.” That is insanity. You have no idea what your life has in store for you.

A few years ago, after an evening out, a colleague asked me if I liked living where I do. I could not help laughing as I replied in the negative and explained I would rather live on my own on the top of a mountain. He appeared shocked.

Ambition ought to be limitless. I suppose what is really at the core of my aspirations is that I will not allow anyone to categorise me. There is no single box in which you can place me – not professionally, socially, spiritually, or any other way.

Liam "The Rebel"

A lot of people worry about the future. In my mind, as long as I keep myself healthy, I can do whatever I like, whatever age I am. If on the other hand I am not healthy, well then I might just as likely be dead, so again it does not really matter.

I do not like to map things out but that is not to say that I do not think about the future. There are little pictures that pop into my head of what life might be like years from now. They are all pretty tranquil. I am not going to describe them here, but rest assured, they are good pictures, happy pictures and joyful pictures.

Patience is a virtue and I will be alright.

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