What is the better virtue - patience or ambition?

I've been told I am very patient, but I am afraid that lately (okay, perhaps my entire college career) idleness and apathy have masqueraded as patience. Everything I have done has been sluggish and lackluster. And amazingly, my situation is still looking hopeful- I'm looking to graduate on time and have a prospective job. And there's countless other blessings. Looking back on pretty much every decision I've made over the past several years, I see only the grace of God as the reason for this. Despite my sloth, God has given me chance upon chance to show my ambition in him.

My family members like to joke that things seem to fall in my lap. I'm realizing how true that is, in the sense that none of it is my own doing. Yet I feel I have wasted so much opportunity. It's time to grab the bull by the horns.

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