How much of our lives is spent in wait? How many moments, minutes - hours do we spend with our minds in turmoil as we patiently (or not so patiently) wait for what we deem to be inevitable? We wait in lines; we get stuck in traffic; we wait for test results and job applications. Then we wait for the bigger things; for the perfect career, the million dollar win, the knight on the white horse to sweep us off our feet.
And how many moments, minutes, hours do we spend disappointed and upset that out waiting has proved pointless?
We have moved so far away from the tangible existence that our ancestors knew. they lived hand to mouth, day to day, season to season. Sure their lives were shorter and primitive compared to our own but who are we to judge what is primitive and what is civilised. Yes, we have advances in technology and medicine and science. Yes we have schools and roads and shopping malls and multimillionaires and all the other minute nuances of our lives. But it seems that the 'better' the quality of life becomes the more waiting we seem to do. Lines get longer and we spend more time waiting in them; We wait to gain our 'superior' educations; we wait to find that perfect job that will kick start our careers so that we can wait for a promotion or a pay rise; We wait for the perfect partner to make the perfect gesture to sweep us off of our feet and into the crazy world of perfect romantic love that has been spoon feed to us since infancy.
I am so sick of the waiting.
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