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A key component of mindfulness is internalizing this delicate balance of patience and desperation as we approach every aspect of our lives.

For the things that need to wait, we have no patience,

and for the things that cannot wait, we have no desperation.

We eliminate possibility when we do not let certain opportunities or relationships in our lives pan out beyond their initial chapters,

and we also eliminate it when we let other opportunities or relationships haplessly perish and dissipate because of our own negligence and complacency.