Jennifer Lopez joyously commemorated her 54th birthday, captivating hearts with a breathtaking lingerie photoshoot that emphatically underscores the notion that age is a mere numerical construct. But some followers claimed in comments to the post that they noticed something weird.
Recent research has indicated that people who choose not to have children experience higher levels of happiness than those who are parents. In today’s society, an increasing number of couples are intentionally deciding not to have kids. Some prioritize their professional pursuits over family life, while others may lack nurturing instincts. Regardless of their motivations, these adults are demonstrating that procreation does not hold the ultimate purpose for human existence.
Our fast-paced lives make us less and less patient: we get frustrated if a webpage takes more than 3 seconds to download and check our likes every minute after we post a photo. However, scientists say that living in such a hurry makes our minds anxious. In this case, patience really is a virtue as it translates into psychological well-being.
Just like beauty, art requires sacrifice, and many actors know this from experience. Makeup that takes several hours to apply, constraining costumes, and tough filming conditions — all these are the norm rather than the exception when it comes to putting on a production. Unfortunately, viewers don’t even know half of what actors need to go through in order to help bring a director’s vision to life.
Many parents will tell you that after they’ve had kids they become more patient and they learn to put the brakes on their wants in order to satisfy their kids’ wants and needs. Also, very often they are required to answer questions they had never thought of. This makes their lives quite exciting and surprising, leaving them with stories to tell.
Every day some people decide to make a change in order to achieve a healthier lifestyle and a more positive body image, and the before-and-after’s are beyond inspiring.
Sometimes the universe enjoys seeing how tolerant we are of other people’s strange habits and of life’s pranks. Luckily, folks online seem to count to 10 before acting at the sight of these infuriating situations. Nevertheless, they capture it on camera so others can hopefully share their feelings of frustration.
The lives of people who have kids and those who don’t are so different it’s almost like they live on different planets. Children can be fussy, noisy, or disobedient, but they’re always adorable no matter what. Their little tricks may make the parents’ lives messy, but in a good way (most of the time).
Even if you don’t meditate, breathing and counting to 10 is a useful trick to get you through a tough day. Because there’s nothing you can do once you realize your phone melted while charging overnight. And there are a bunch of people on Reddit that can prove that life throws just about every curve ball you can imagine.
Someone once said, “Love isn’t something natural. Rather, it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.” And this feels very true since maintaining and growing your love for someone takes a lot of work and effort. It’s about overcoming the moments you feel like you want to give up, and that takes a lot of mental power.
Tolerating things that annoy us to the core isn’t easy, hence the saying “patience is a virtue.” But sometimes, we encounter situations that test our limits. Take, for example, these scenes that trigger unpleasant feelings even when we’re just looking at them on the screen.
Sometimes, bad perspective and the wrong angle are the perfect mix to trick our eyes into thinking we are seeing something far away from reality. For these kinds of images to be deciphered, you need patience and also a lot of attention to detail. Do you think you have both of these qualities?
Having kids is the same as living every day as if you’re on a rollercoaster ride. One second you’re as joyful as can be and the next you find your cheese stick has a bite mark on it, plastic and all. Thankfully, parents have mastered the art of using a sense of humor to cope with their naughty children. And for those on the outside looking in, photos of their mischief can be quite entertaining.
Living with kids can feel like your patience is being tested pretty much every day. Whether it’s being a subject for funny pranks or having to deal with bad behavior — there are lots and lots of things that require parents to put a lot of effort into simply being calm.
Not everyone is as observant as Sherlock Holmes, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be eventually. It requires practice and patience, and that’s what puzzles and riddles are for. They’re perfect exercises to keep your brain sharp and improve other cognitive skills.
Puzzles and riddles exercise our brains in multiple ways, with one of them being the improving of our memory. They also make us better at solving problems generally in life, teaching us that patience is the key. Additionally, our stress levels are declining, making our lives more carefree even for a short period of time.
People who are good at arts and crafts know that aside from talent, you also have to be patient and keep practicing to achieve great results. Those who spent hours upon hours perfecting their artwork can amaze everyone they know with such unbelievable things as knitting an entire wedding dress or crafting a beautiful lamp out of a wasp nest.
Cutting your hair can be an impulse decision made in a few minutes. However, the opposite process of growing your hair out can take long years. Today’s heroes have admirable patience and determination to reach their goal: having lush locks.
Being a parent is no easy task. On top of sleepless nights and endless diaper changes, it comes with so many big changes that totally turn our lives upside down. Luckily, some kids have a great sense of humor, and others like to roast their parents better than any comedian. From what we’ve noticed, one way to be a good parent is to have an unlimited supply of, you guessed it, patience.
Growing long hair takes time, patience, and a lot of good hair care products. And eventually, you’ll get irresistibly beautiful locks that will turn heads and clearly show the result is totally worth it. The 15 long-haired people featured in this article definitely know all the secrets to getting the mane of your dreams, and we can’t help but envy them just a little bit.
When you finally meet your Mr or Mrs Right, it’s easy to imagine you’ll spend the rest of your life together. But unlike what romantic movies are trying to show us, real-life relationships take patience and commitment to really work. And no one knows it better than 17 people featured in this article. All of them managed to preserve their love through the years, and can definitely teach us some valuable lessons.
