WHY IS PATIENCE A VIRTUE?

                                             

Suppose a person awaits the arrival of a friend she last saw in her teen age from out of town at a train station, and all of a sudden discovers that the friend's arrival would take longer than anticipated due to unforeseen but inevitable reasons, the person sits patiently at the station longing for the reunion and patiently distracts herself with reading a newspaper,  a few peeps at other people waiting at the station or simply reminiscing and hoping to share such fond memories with the friend as soon as she hops off the train.

Before she realises she had spent a larger part of the day at the station but all that is erased with a  throttling sound of the approaching train and a large scream and hug as the visitor alights.

 Patience is demonstrated by deliberately distracting oneself whilst you hang on your object of focus. Patience is often confused with absence of complaint in the face of obvious discomfort. but the definition varies as there are many tribes and tongues that exists world over. Whilst a wife whose husband cheats on her ,but she pretentiously ignores and still attends to his physical and emotional needs believes that she is a model of patience, the employee who feels slighted by her boss's remarks after taking his fall and saving the company's stock from crashing, only not to be appreciated with no form of pecuniary compensation is asked by her colleagues if her middle name is patience as they still do not understand why she's still hanging on to the firm or the man who gives a free passage of way to a woman in traffic and gets no "thank you"

Whilst so many thoughts exists as to what exactly is patience she exhibits patience in this case. Something else must be required to make one's lack of complaint virtuous.  It's because a circumstance is uncomfortable for someone that we find her refusal to complain remarkable and thus regard her as patient.

Patience is  simply defined as "waiting without complaint," patience might seem to be a morally insignificant trait.

 What's so virtuous about not complaining? In itself, not complaining carries no particular virtue.

So to improve the initial definition above, to be patient is to endure discomfort without complaint. This calls into play some other virtues, specifically, Self-control, humility, and generosity. 

A virtue is a trait or quality deemed to be morally excellent and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being. Patience can make us better people. The definition of the word is to tolerate delay implying self control and forbearance. When we say "patience is a virtue" we are exposing our moral values and expressing the importance of patience as a foundation of principle. So to answer the question patience is not a virtue until it truly becomes a virtue and knowing how diverse the spectrum of individualism is I'm sure patience is a vice(opposite of virtue) to some. Patience is a necessity for a happy existence and that is why the phrase is so often used. 

Patience is a virtue because it is developed through difficulties and troubles. When men or women lack understanding of the order of God, it is impossible for them to accept nor understand God's way.

 This is how important patience is: Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.