if indeed PATIENCE is... (but it's a fact anyway)

...a VIRTUE then probably most student nurses would be virtuous now. i'm not mocking the "saying" but we students nurses have been taught how to be patient especially to our patients, to our instructors and a lot of people. to be honest, i am not a very patient person. i think i have a type A personality who possesses the characteristic of time hurriedness. and also i am a virgo. by nature virgos are so impatient since the planet mercury govern their lives...but then its just a mere astrological postulate...back to being patient. i guess, i became a little patient about everything. imagine waiting for several hours in the hospital lobby waiting for your scrub nurse to come out then at the end of the day (after waiting several hours) that s/he is not around, is absent, is on-leave or whatever. whew! the agony of waiting. it keeps your mind busy thinking about the positive things but the truth is you wanna scream and hit somebody for making you wait so long. it really sucks to wait...right now, i'm on the edge of my so-called patience. i have been waiting for months now (2 months to be exact) for my forms (PRC) to be signed by the clinical coordinator. this waiting thing...it keeps me anxious all the time...there are so many silent movies in my head like i don't know what to do...in fact i made a poem about this waiting thing...here it is...

the wait

welcome to the waiting game.
where frustrations are your friends
and smiles are your foes.
leg cramps are common,
where chairs have no vacancy.
you wait outside the transparent glass doors.
you grumble, you complain...
but all of these are futile.
you are in a win-lose situation. you give up---you lose
but still you question: is the prize worth the wait?
you wanna scream and let it go...but you simply can't
damn this life...the life of a student nurse.
copyright:2006-dyancyril-090306
i sort of edited some lines here..but i made this while waiting at DMC-OR...
>>>>God Speed<<<<