Life seems to be full of waiting--waiting for buses, waiting for a free
shower, waiting for a response--the list could go on. And if you are a
person who likes things to happen, waiting can be debilitating. You
can't force a cake to bake faster. You can't make someone else make a
decision. So, often, waiting is just inevitable, right?
What I am finding, in a time when waiting--for just about
everything--could wipe me out, is that waiting for some things does not
have to mean waiting for everything. Perhaps we can't eat the cake now,
but we can clear away the extra ingredients and tools to make room for
it. Maybe we can't force a response to come, but we can keep sending
questions into the world so that there are more places from which a
response might come. We still have to wait our turn, wait on line, wait
it out, but we can do while we are waiting. And doing is worthwhile,
whether it prepares us, or entertains us, or simply keeps us occupied
while we wait.
Wait a minute? We all probably wait far more than a minute on a very
regular basis. But when we choose to use our waiting time, rather than
simply wring our hands through it, a minute, and even more, can go
quickly, so that before we know it, we are moving, and succeeding, and
eating cake as we go.
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