The systems had been hacked, despite installing firewalls and meticulous planning. The experts were called in for damage repair, but her professional credibility had immensely suffered. Sheila had never found herself in such a pickle before.
She spent the next one week working with the experts, learning more about the vulnerability of each component, and how to rebuild it with longer and larger immunity.
Back home, her grandmother was waiting on the dining table, exuding a sense of calm. Sheila had a sudden epiphany, about the patience being developed with all the pickles she made every year, and which Sheila had failed to learn.
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! However that is life-time achievements are potential only by making mistakes and everybody is the like, but not too often!
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We never learn the obvious until it bites us on the bum!
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Great take on the prompt. Patience does not always come easy and needs to be acquired and of course, it can depend on what you need the patience for.
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Everything is subjective, including personality traits. Thanks!
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smiled at the conclusion. So often the wear and tear is not from impatience, but from being unable to right-size the results of errors. Errors that, were someone else to make them, we might be inclined to say, “Don’t beat yourself up. No one is perfect.’ (easier said than done, when it happes to us, though).
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Patience is an important virtue. A good run with the cue…
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Is there a way to inculcate that in the ‘instant’ age?
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Patience is a virtue I neither have nor want. 😂
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It can give people a chance to jump at you, if you are not alert. So, yes!
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You’ve reminded me of the line from a TV show, “Patience, Grasshopper!” An excellent point to this tale!
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Perfect cap to the tale! Thanks!
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Oops! No she has to get her credibility back. However that is life achievements are possible only by making mistakes and everybody is the same, but not too often!! P.S. The pickle looks yummy too!
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Thanks! I agree with you. It just highlights the importance of life skills ingrained in the early years.
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I love this piece!
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Thank you so much!
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