patience
Patience is the spiritual ordeal of maintaining a smile through meaningless demands and interminable waits. It celebrates self-sacrifice as virtue while secretly cursing the ticking clock and practicing elaborate breathing. The more you believe there’s a reward beyond suffering, the more you prepare for inevitable betrayal. Praised by society yet buried in unnoticed efforts, it is the graveyard of endeavor. Simultaneously, it mirrors the resignation to one’s own inability to flee.