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29 August 2011
Patience, I used to be told as a child, is a virtue and virtue is a grace. But I was neither gracious nor patient and used to chant “Patience is a virtue, virtue is a Grace and Grace is the name of a girl who has no virtue”.
So I am sympathetic to people who want something to happen today, a date tonight, to meet their prince, their knight in shining armour, the man of their dreams today, tomorrow and if not by the end of this week or month or before their birthday , which happens to be only 3 weeks away.
I understand too that people come to me when they are ready; they have been getting around to it for months, years even and have finally made the courageous step to call me, meet me and lay bare their innermost feelings, longings, yearnings. And having taken that step they want to meet someone soon.
My heart sinks when I see an email from someone who has been waiting for 3 months, sometimes 6, sometimes almost a year, asking when it will happen, when will they get a call, a date, when will it happen for them, and I can only say that it will, please be patient, your call will be answered and redouble my efforts, but I feel the stress, feel put under the pressure and take the strain.
With the news that a date has been set for the third marriage and my latest male client calling off all future dates as he has met the woman he has been looking for at introduction no 2, that makes it 24 matches within the year of officially being in business, I think I can confidently say to all those ladies, and one or two men, “Patience” it will happen and when you are least expecting it, the phone will ring and I will say to you as I did to the lady in my latest match, a client who has been with me for even before the official launch, “I think I’ve got him”.
See me as a duck, seemingly gliding across the pond, but in reality paddling furiously underneath.
