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Help[Opinions] Re: Patience
in reply to a message by Canielle
Like you, I prefer Patience as a middle name. Virtue names can be a bit tricky. With patience, the endurance to get through trouble, suffering, and delays withut getting angry is commendable, but it also refers to someone who who is going through a lot of terrible circumstances. To always have to be patient is a bit sad even if it speaks well of character.
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Wow, I don't hear it as implying terrible circumstances. Patience is a daily, mundane thing, like just the act of listening is usually showing patience.
This message was edited 6/3/2021, 8:28 AM
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I don't think it is universal to instantly think of Patience as someone calmly enduring hardship. As you say, someone can be patient in all kinds of circumstances. A longsuffering woman (possibly living during the late 1600s) who had gone through hell and high water is just the mental image that I have.
There is some suggestion of bearing with something unpleasant in the word "patient," so I kind of know why I automatically think of hardship.
1: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2: manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3: not hasty or impetuous
4: steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
I would be happy to meet a young, cheerful Patience. That would probably alter my impression of the name.
There is some suggestion of bearing with something unpleasant in the word "patient," so I kind of know why I automatically think of hardship.
1: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2: manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3: not hasty or impetuous
4: steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
I would be happy to meet a young, cheerful Patience. That would probably alter my impression of the name.
This message was edited 6/3/2021, 3:59 PM
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