Efficiency or Patience?
There is a joke that two of the most exacting workers are as follows. For clericals they are the canonists, for layman they are the accountants. Nonetheless, they might in reality be better than us in personal dealings. We've set fast selling as one of our first articles here. However, through the pandemic of closed stores and dwindling buyers, I have to stare at point blank all day that no one would like to buy from me anymore or do something in the store aside from waiting for customers to come again. By then I forgot to take care of my customers, letting each finger countable ones to become just a disturbance to what I've been doing to past my time instead of waiting for them. I have to give more of myself to others. By waiting patiently for them to think, looking them in the eye to assess their situation first and their needs, I become more Christlike in giving them the groceries they need, instead of rushing them to already tell me what they need because there might follow