WHY WE WAIT

I still remember this saying from my high school teacher 3-4 years ago (this must be important because if you know me, you know that my memory sucks badly).

“1/3 of your lifetime is for waiting.”

“Really?”

“Sometimes you’re really doing nothing but waiting, most of the time you’re doing something but you’re actually waiting for the next.”

It’s stuck in my head ever since. Are we really into whatever we do that our heart and soul are in it, that we are “in the zone”, that everything that comes next are secondary? Only if we really love what we do can we be able to “not waiting” for the next.

To me, what my teacher says actually means most of the time in your life, you’re doing something you don’t like in order to do something you (think you) like later.

It’s sad but true. We keep waiting because we are naturally curious and pathetically, full of hope.

I’m waiting still for what comes next.