Are You a Patient Person?

Patience is a virtue, so they say.

Patience is what distinguishes a person who is broadminded and understanding, according to someone who defined patience.

Are you a patient person? Has your patience been tested a lot of times? What have you done about it?

My answer:

I will be focusing my line of work, which is teaching special needs children.

With the children I work with, I am very, very patient with them.

I also try to be very patient and understanding when it comes to their parents but that goes without saying that there are times when I get very frustrated with their parents, and sometimes how they deal with the different intervention decisions that they make without consulting those who work with them.

Of course, I know it’s their prerogative since they are the ones financing these things but somehow, the objectives that have been set and being worked on are ignored because of these decisions.

My patience regarding my workplace has reached its end, I must say. I have tried to be patient with the way they deal with things, but last week, I had to stop stressing myself too much with these and decided to cut my ties with them.

It hurts me more to leave the children I have worked with for almost three years, not that all of them have been with me that long. Most of these kids have been with me for two years and I love them dearly.

Assessing my situation, I had to decide to choose loving myself first, even if I love my job, before I lost the little self-respect I have left for myself in that place because of the way things happened.

For now, I am taking things slowly, feeling my way one step at a time and weighing my priorities

As I have said in one of the previous WQ, I am ready to reinvent myself and that what happened last week was the first step, though it took a while for me to do it, but at least I did! 🙂

Arlene