Cool Runnings

There are some challenges that are not necessarily life-crippling, but they slowly eat away at your soul. From little things happening over and over to a long term challenge that remains to be overcome, the trials of life never seem to cease picking away at us. It's hard isn't it. From health problems, to the weather, to things beyond our control. The last thing we need is to have someone else give us trouble. So what do we do? What do we need?

Tolerance. It's a characteristic we can't afford to lack as we face many others who stir us up. People test our patience and tolerance all over this earth, some choosing to spark others up just for fun and those whose character will just manage to stir us up just through simple cohabitation. The ability to be cool, light, strong but  like titanium, allows ourselves to reflect the afflictions that come our way. Tolerance is essential if we are to pass through everyday life without having to concave and conform to society's pressures. If we have tolerance we can pass through the steamer and pressures of life only to come out stronger and lustrous on the outside.

'Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.'

Tolerance, using the dictionary, is: 'The capacity to endure continued subjection to something.'
Here's my definition. It's the ability to stop pitying yourself, to not lay idle and whine in your own matters, but to be permanently resilient. Tolerance is knowing that you are stronger than the world's offense against you. It is knowing that there is a spirit within you to move onward.

 This completely demonstrates the wrong idea but I thought it was funny.

However metal conducts heat. With tolerance we conduct the heat that is storming at us, there's a temptation to become one conflagration; giving up and literally becoming a mess. On the other hand and hopefully that's the choice we take, we radiate the heat in a non-dangerous manner or mould ourselves into something stronger, built for different purposes and strengths. You see unlike steel - titanium is lighter, stronger and it's alloy is highly resistive to corrosion, we don't sink to the bottom like others so easily, we don't let others corrupt us and every time we take a hit, we stand firm and return straight back for another one. Another key aspect about tolerance is that tolerance not only just rejects the inscrutable ability for others to be annoying, but like titanium we can accompany other products - being willing to work alongside those who transgress against us.

There comes to a point though where people believe tolerance is doing nothing. There is a part where we have to be calm, assertive and courageous to solve issues rather than letting them bear against us. Being malleable we can adapt while being durable at the same time, knowing what to do and what forms to take when handling sticky situations. We carry vital information like electricity, and conduct power through tolerance but we must also use our abilities to collectively correct what is forcing us to be tolerant. There is no point being tolerant and tirelessly allowing and onslaught of attacks from others. We need to use our tolerance to allow ourselves to react with tact and to make lives better for ourselves and others. Teaching others how to be tolerant and by highlighting issues or problems - that may manifest as simple idiosyncrasies may help them too. Things such as only child loneliness is so understandable and we try our best to tolerate some of the issues that strain from it, but there comes a point where we have to correct some of the symptoms in order to help the other person, but that takes a lot of love and a lot of heart.