RSSLife if like a box of cho - no, I’m just kidding. Actually, I think life is a lot like a Geometry problem. Perhaps that’s why, for the first time in my life, in 10th grade, I was one of the top two math kids in my grade. - But my Algebra I teacher would have been absolutely stunned (as was I!) to see me in that position.
In Geometry, you have some information that is already given to you, with which you need to solve your equation. It’s always enough to do the job, though at first it may not appear to be so. Like life, you say? I agree!
And as in Geometry, some equations have you solve for angle AB, in another equation, while the degree of angle AB is one of the pieces of information you are already given, in order to solve a different problem. So we’re all like that. One person’s given is another person’s problem!
For some, patience may be a given - they’re almost born with it. Patience, for me -well, that was definitely something I was solving for; and it has been hard-won.
It’s easy to judge others for what is so easy for us. “What is her problem??” we’ve all thought. Maybe we should take that question literally, as her problem is obviously something different than yours is.
When we judge others, we’re assuming they began with the same set of givens! My friends in college liked to call me “bass-ackwards”, pig-latin for the fact that I generally tended to be going in a direction that no one else was going in. (I had started in a place that none of my friends had gone to yet. I began life with the givens of knowing that materialism alone would never make me happy, and have always known that I was not my body. I was uncomfortable with materialism, mistakenly assuming that if I took it on, I’d be lost in it, like everyone else I saw!)
These kinds of opposite directions - you and I learning what the other already knows - makes it easy to misunderstand and judge each other. Those born with perfect health, for example, often have a hard time understanding the reality of someone born with serious health complications. Those born with wealth often have a hard time understanding what it’s like for someone who begins life with a negative family bank balance.
Just remember: the person you want to teach probably also has something to teach you. (Right back at ya!) Look for it!