We often hope, or pray that we have a certain good attitude, or that our bad attitude would be replaced with the good ones. We do our ways towards it, we hold the bad attitudes, think the otherwise, then we fail. We ask for counseling, and sometimes suggestions, from any professional or just random person, to give us an idea on how we could overcome our bad attitudes. We may turn religious at times, but none of those church leaders could help us with our problem if the problem is exactly ourselves. No other person could ever help us if we won’t act first on our own. Other people may help through encouraging moral supports, but none of their stuff could make us turn our backs on our bad attitudes.
A man wants to have patience, because he can’t even patiently wait for his bread to get toasted. Everyday, he looks in the mirror and talks to his reflection. “You’ve got to learn to be patient!” Then everyday, it seems like coincidental that something annoying would happen to him. Something like, falling in a very long line, wait for him to be called at the bank by the teller, get stuck in the traffic making him late for an appointment, etc. He is actually being tested to what he asks for. These circumstances would determine if he truly has the patience that he wants.
We heard of the song “I wanna know what love is…” by Foreigner. The man wants to love. But he doesn’t even know what it is. In the song he was thinking maybe he could only know love being with a partner. But he got that wrong. Love could come in any way. What if you ask for love, then, you go outside your house and see the person that you hate the most? Or, hear the song, see the show, smell the odor, that you hate the most? Would you think that you are gaining more hate than love? Or, isn’t love being tested in you? You’ll know what love is if you’d learn to love the things that you hate.
Oftentimes we aim to have good attitudes, then, get tested on them. By that, we feel like as if we are failing on that area of what we are asking for. Then, you’ll think, “Maybe I better start with the other attitude.” If you can’t work on what you aim for, then, you can never work aiming at the other areas. If you want to have patience, you’ll be tested greatly on it. If you want to be humble, you might get humiliated, and get tested on it. Bill Gates worked so hard to become rich. He didn’t become of what he is now in just an overnight.
