A precious gem...PATIENCE!

Mother used to say "Patience is a virtue!", I can see that but patience sure is a strange and eluding thing. Many people have it but more don't have it. Personally I have a lot of patience for different things and with differing degrees. So how do you develop this precious gem called patience?

Lately my family's patience has been tested. As you may or may not know we plan to move to a bigger place. Our little unit which has been a great start is certainly too small for the three of us. After the disastrous flooding incident, which started the snowball of havoc, we seem to have everything getting back to normal. Unfortunately we still have to wait a few months before we can start packing!

To make it worse everything about our place is starting to get on our nerves, especially the ignorant neighbour. I certainly won't miss that tinkle sound from the unit up stairs, or people parking in the no parking zones especially when there is a sign saying 'no visitor parking'. Another pet hate, the junk mail that gets put on top of the letter boxes and then flies all over the place making our unit look like a tip and no one picks it up but us. Perhaps the bins that are smelly and overflowing and don't get put out unless we do it. Also the waterfall of water over the upstairs balcony that goes all over our stuff below.... oh I could go on. I know we are at the tipping point; we cannot avoid our neighbours as there are too many common areas so we keep biting our tongue! Mine is getting a little bloody from the bite marks, patience sure is wearing thin. We dream of a little house all to ourselves, no body corp, no neighbours! Ahh peace at last... well I'll keep dreaming and somehow figure out how to stretch the hair thin piece of patience I have left.

Suggestions anyone for developing patience?