If there is ever a test to one’s patience it is in the fag end of any event. A movie is successful or otherwise depending on the test it takes of one’s patience in the last fifteen minutes. Train travelers who have patiently endured a two day journey across the length or the breadth of the country get restless and fidgety during the last half an hour or so when the train takes its own sweet time to come into the railway station after entering the city. This is a significant reason why batsmen get out in the last one or two overs of the day in test cricket. A small bit of extra patience and composure would have enabled them to keep their innings intact.
The challenge is in finishing off things in style without letting the bugs of the last stretch get to your nerves. Such a behavior of people is actually a contradiction of sorts. In most cases at the beginning the outcomes are uncertain. When a person gets into a bus or train what he has is an ETA at the destination. The accuracy of the estimate is anyone’s guess given the state of public transport system. The irony here is that we are not greatly affected by this uncertainty but get uncomfortable about that last half an hour when the travel gets slow because we have already reached the destination in principle and only the formality of reaching the railway station/Bus Stand remains to be done.
People are successful or otherwise depending on how they handle this last stretch effectively. Do they stay in control or impose a hypothetical pressure on themselves which soon deteriorates into panic?
Thinking about this while in B’lore waiting for my new assingnment to be assigned and believe me this last stretch is quite a strain on my patience…..
The challenge is in finishing off things in style without letting the bugs of the last stretch get to your nerves. Such a behavior of people is actually a contradiction of sorts. In most cases at the beginning the outcomes are uncertain. When a person gets into a bus or train what he has is an ETA at the destination. The accuracy of the estimate is anyone’s guess given the state of public transport system. The irony here is that we are not greatly affected by this uncertainty but get uncomfortable about that last half an hour when the travel gets slow because we have already reached the destination in principle and only the formality of reaching the railway station/Bus Stand remains to be done.
People are successful or otherwise depending on how they handle this last stretch effectively. Do they stay in control or impose a hypothetical pressure on themselves which soon deteriorates into panic?
Thinking about this while in B’lore waiting for my new assingnment to be assigned and believe me this last stretch is quite a strain on my patience…..
