Waiting for the fish

Do you sometimes think that life would be much better if you were patient? Patience has a tendency to elude me, I want what I want, and I want it NOW. Can you learn to be a cheerful waiter? I mean, sure if you actually enjoy balancing trays and taking abuse from people who just want to order you about... but really, you know, while you wait for stuff to happen in your life, is there a way to be content, cheerful, and generally pleasant to be around? Is it a character trait that you can imbue? I mean, what if the concept of being a child of peace is completely alien to you? What does it look like? I mean, sometimes I think my attitude goes something like this: 'If you care enough about something, it moves you to action. If you're not moved to action about the thing you're frustrated about, then it SEEMS like you don't care and its not important.' Mmmm time to change the script to something like, 'Just becuase I'm not doing anything about it, it doesn't mean its not important and it doesn't mean I don't care.' So, how do I communicate that then? How do I start living it? How can something still be REALLY important, but you don't STRIVE after it? There is a big lesson here to be learned... I think the cats can teach us something. Do you think they learned that if they hang around long enough, then they'd get what they wanted?