I haven’t been a carpenter and yet I know about carpentry! A carpenter can be called a wood shape-giving worker. Wood is not wood until it is a plant grown and dried at a certain degree of hardness. The wood is taken by the carpenter without any appearance of beauty or fashion design! Skillfully, the carpenter uses all the potentials possessed to turn the wood into a good tool. You may think the task is easier, but it’s not—it’s both patience requiring and brain-glucose consuming!
At first, the wood looks bad but in the end, it is turned into good—transformative creation! This transformative creation can’t be done in a minute—it’s not an evolution though! The wood-giving plant starts as a ‘hard-to-see’ seed and grows naturally within a given space and period of time until it’s a really grown plant! The plant wood is not shaped by the carpenter until it is dried and thus the making of a certain usable tool can be possible! From the seed to the fully grown plant, the carpenter still waits—the carpentry sounds boring and tiresome—but the results are enjoyable—and that’s how it is and nothing can change it anyhow.
Our earthly life is like carpentry where, sometimes, things start small enough to wait until they become really big! A newborn baby is not born racing—this is impossible! It has to be breastfed and at a certain time learn how to sit, then how to hold a fixed thing, then how to walk stumbling until the baby might become ‘the fastest Athlete Guinness world record’! What about the mother breastfeeding the baby while watching the Olympics’ racing games? Astonished, she might wonder about how a human baby can turn into an Olympics’ racing games winner! This is really a natural wonder—human growth. The mother can be having psychological disorders when exclaiming, “My little baby is abnormal as it can’t run 1 mile in less than a minute!”
This life natural principle can be applied to many things that usually happen to us. How often have you thought about just becoming a full professor as your university lecturer is? How often have you thought about becoming your country’s president without having been able to be your class representative? How often have you thought about just becoming a billionaire without even knowing how to earn or save a coin per day? How often have you thought about just having a 30 day-course certificate on the first day of the course? How often have you thought about just building a skyscraper without even having a ghetto? Many times we think like the above-mentioned mother with psychological disorders complaining about her breastfed baby's inability to participate in Olympics racing games! We should learn how to start small and end big!
As we are in the era of advanced technology where many things are simply ‘click-on’, where you can send an electronic mail and be delivered in less than a second, where online purchases are made, where robots ‘do-it-all’ themselves, where conferences are held on ‘Skype’, where people are ‘Linked-In’ instantly, where ‘Live news of Football scores’ are shown from a continent to another in less than a second, etcetera! However, the life natural principle is still there and still helps to enjoy our daily life as much as possible. We still need patience in our thinking and we still have to keep in mind that a lot of things can’t happen just in a minute! We often meet difficulties in learning, playing, art performing, or any other thing else but we should be patient and more realistic than illusionists. We should remember that we, as humans, are limited in time and space!
We often complain a lot about our inability to achieve this or that, but remember what the carpentry is all about—enduring patience! Someone said, I quote, “Patience is not the ability to wait rather the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” Our thinking shapes our life and how we see things—bad or good—just as the carpenter does to the wood. Some may complain about something going wrong or looking bad while it can be an opportunity for you. Don’t always think the way others think. Do you know why? You are not others—you are unique!
Take time to pause and reflect on your everyday life and don’t be discouraged by those things looking bad, small, tiresome, or somewhat useless. Use your brain to shape the things looking bad into good-looking ones. Where patience is required to be patient, where calmness is required to stay calm and be wise enough to ensure a good result [I believe that True Wisdom comes from GOD Jehovah]. Don’t be so rush, tired, or giving-up unless you regret your impatience! Let’s dream big, strive more, and achieve a lot but also let’s always remember that our mindset is to be taken into consideration through it all.
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