this past week has been so unexpected. An unexpected week of so much work, of so many hours spent in camp and returning home slightly later at night and tired. But it has taught me something – the attitude of patience and understanding.
saw this on juli’s tumblr just yesterday -
“It’s not about how sweet you can be, how much gifts you give, or even how much you’re willing to do for your loved one. It’s about how patient and understanding you can be when things aren’t going right, when someone does something that makes you angry, sad, or hurt.
It’s actually really easy to treat someone nicely, it’s easy to do a lot of sweet things for someone, it’s easy to shower someone with love and gifts. But it’s so hard, so hard, to be understanding and patient when things aren’t going the way you want.
If you care and love someone, try to just let little meaningless things go, sometimes even let the big things slide… ”
from hjlovestory.tumblr.com
Yep this week i’ve been training recruits about cpr and medical stuff. And it has taught me something. Even if they are slow in grasping concepts and when they really do their best and yet fail the tests posed to them, do ppl like me who’s testing them stay frustrated or remain patient and understanding. it isn’t easy as mentioned above. But i’m learning the process of being patient and understanding towards them, believing they can pass the tests posed to them. they just need more guidance.
And more than that, I believe that in the outside world, people who have potential within them should exploit it to good use. it only takes a mentor or someone to guide them, to believe in them and to bring them out in their fullest potential.
i guess that’s mainly the role of a mentor today. well i’m not saying that a mentor (or even a teacher) can stay calm patient and understanding all the way. there are human flaws whereby sometimes our emotions stir us up to become so frustrated that we give up on people. But it’s in this learning journey that we minimize those human flaws and say yeah, i’m believing in you coz God created you and put in you a potential to succeed in life. and in this process over the past week, i guess it’s a learning process for me to stay patient and understanding and believe in people. it’ll be tiring it’ll take lots of sacrifices but i guess at the end of the day there’ll be a sense of achievement in seeing results and fruits in people’s lives, fruits of their success.
