Frustration and cacophony

 Before I dive into this it seems kind of appropriate to mention

how remarkable the times in which we live.  I think that a

great deal of art has been produced over the last 50 years or

more in connection with imagining what the world would

be like at this time, although those artists might not place

it exactly at this point. Honestly I don't think anyone could

really imagine clearly, what is happening to us all, at this time.


So cacophony just sounds good, an amazing nice sounding

word do describe what is essentially the opposite of how

nice it sounds.  Also I had no idea how to spell it and so

thought this would be a " learning " experience for me.


Frustration, however, is a bit of a more serious matter, although

you can see it could and maybe does have something to do with

cacophony.  I think that that an awful lot of the frustration we

experience comes principally from " missteps " which seem to

take on a whole variety of forms.  A miscalculation perhaps, 

like reaching for something and knocking it over.  Sometimes

these missteps are correctable, but sometimes the immediate

response is anger.  As an emotion you can see that anger

is closely related to cacophony, because it's a lot of emotion

happening at the same time, in ,sort of, unordered ways.  When

anger intervenes or takes control , often that particular

situation will - perhaps degenerate.


Of course, that is not the only situation in which we experience

frustration.  There are a whole host of issues which might

be called " social " frustration, in which issues that are

not dealt with in a timely way, become a course of concerns.

And then there are lots of concerns, that don't necessarily

rise to the level of frustration.  


Oddly enough, we all, or most of use do possess a virtue

- a difficult virtue to develop, but we all do possess it,

and of course that particular virtue is called patience.


Perhaps the reason that patience is so difficult to develop

is directly related to how difficult frustration is do deal

with, on what ever level it might occur.  But the benefits

of patience can and are often " awesome ", in particular

in relationships,  And of course there is the "saying ",

well know, because people must say it a lot, "that time

heals all wounds",  and sometimes it does help a lot.


But patience is, certainly a curious virtue.  Some times

it might be viewed a passivity , which it could be, but

as with most all virtues, it is a thing which can be

improved, and/or, the ability to determine the appropriate

time to act or not to act, is part of all that.


What is really important ( if there is such a thing ) 

about patience is, in particular, it can be connected

to our ability to appreciate some of the good

and positive things we do experience. And that could

lead to another virtue, which is called gratitude. And

that one, can really be majorly beneficial to us

all, almost any time.


So, I can't really reach , a final conclusion at all,

but certainly this is a dynamic which many of

us are currently enmeshed, and may, in fact, be

connected directly to the large amounts of

general crabbiness which many are now experiencing.

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