I remember years ago being told a story about patience. It was told by a monk, it goes like this.

When you are praying and praying for something, and let us just say you are praying for patience in a given situation, well the universe does not just bestow/ give you a heap load of patience onto you. ALAS, oh dear ha ha! No what happens in fact is that the Universe gives you a heap load of situations where the only thing you can do is be patient. Therefore, what you are doing is learning the skill of “patience” and learning how to use it properly, mastering it through repeated practice.

This is also the case with positivity, when you are learning to be more positive, the universe gives you many negative situations and people so that you can learn to rise above and place your energy vibration higher,  ...