Patience is NOT virtue, is it?

Question

For people who think patience is a virtue, I ask you this.
What about people who have waited to long if life to do things and are now old?

Fictional but good examples,

"Rocky Balboa" He finally decides to make a comback, but at the age of 60.

Even though Hulk Hogan did everything he ever wanted in the WWF/WWE years ago, what if he waited until he was as old as he is now?

"The Rookie" with Dennis Quaid. He plays a guy who's waited too long to finally try out to be a pitcher in MLB. In the movie, he's around 40.

"The 40-year old Virgin". He's gotten a little too old. If there was such a thing as guy finally doing it at 40, then the sad part is that he'll never know how he could've performed in his 20s.


So you can't totally say that patience is a great thing to have, can you? If it is a virtue, then it's one of the most useless ones.

So now what those examples mentioned above??

Answer 1

You can't really expect most virtues to help you in most situations. The above situations aren't really patience oriented things. A couple of the people just didn't care much anymore. The 40 Year Old Virgin even said he gave up trying. That's not patience, it is a lack of it. In The Rookie, Dennis Quaid didn't want to try out. And can you really expect Rocky to be any different?

Answer 2

It's the journey that counts, not the destination.