The Least Common Denominator

XLIV.I Fahrenheit

Patience. The unending virtue of the ultimate saint. As someone that's sorely lacking in this department, I had no right in lecturing anyone about this subject, let alone tell someone to just wait and let the chips fall down where they may lie when I, myself, had the patience of a fucking firework. Granted, my patience would be considered as pretty decent so long as it came to matters I didn't really give a shit about, but if it came to the stuff that really mattered, I was pretty fucking impatient to the point of leaving even my friends behind if it meant I got to finish faster. I supposed it was the reason why I always ended up going first whenever there were exams being administered; my stupid, impatient brain not even thinking twice before shading in an answer. And then I realize that I had shaded it wrong a few minutes later and I wouldn't be able to take it back. And in a world where even a single point could mean passing or fa