Instant gratification

There is not many things in life that you get satisfaction from right at the moment it happens. Most of the things in my life are on a wait and see time frame. It has been a life with many lessons in patience which defiantly is not my strong point. Wait for the next pay check, wait until your Dad gets home, wait until my husband gets home from out of town, wait until after supper, wait for your next belt, anyway the list goes on and on. So once in a while its nice to see the results of your labor right in front of you. This weekend we laid sod. The yard went from ugly black barren landscape to a lush green lawn in a matter of hours.
Now I would be the first to argue that anything worth having is best received after you have worked for it. Every once and a while though its good for the soul to see the results right in front of your eyes.
I never feel it's the right time to say it, but most classes I teach or help with in Kung Fu give me this same gratification. When I see the results of a single class or instruction within the students grasp or see the understanding dawn on their faces I get this same warm and fuzzy feeling. It probably doesn't feel like it was so instant to the student, but from a different point of view, the bigger picture was very clear.
So the things we feel will never come are some times right in front of us, we just never stepped back far enough to see the big picture.


Linda