waiting

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations where we cannot do anything but wait. We are left with no better choice but to stay where we’re at and wait for whatever is going to happen next.

For example you arrive at the airport late and you miss your flight. You cannot do anything but wait for the next available flight and hope that it is not yet fully booked or wish that one of the passengers will also be late or will not show up. Well, waiting is not really the only choice left here. You can actually opt to just leave the airport and forget about leaving entirely. But if you do that you will never be able to do what you actually set out to do. Or you can take the boat or the bus. But that will definitely take you longer.

Here is another example. You applied for a job and the last person who interviewed you told you the line “Do not call us, we will call you”. Here you are also not left with any other choice but to wait. You cannot call them everyday to follow up your application status because if you do that they might get annoyed with you and reject you. You can actually look for other jobs while waiting but if you are really bent on getting this job, your only recourse is to wait for their call.

Here’s another one. You finally find the person whom you feel you are going to love for the rest of your life. Unfortunately you find out that it is not yet possible. Either he or she is not yet available or your situation is such that you cannot be together yet (he or she is still not ready, he or she is still too young, he or she is still busy with other concerns, etc). You cannot do anything but wait for him or her to be available (i.e. break-up with his or her present partner -- tsk, tsk…wag ganon) or wait for the situation to clear up for the both of you.

Sometimes waiting can be too tiring. Doing nothing can really be a pain in the butt. But if you think that what you are waiting for is really the best thing for you then go for it. It is always better to wait than to settle for the second best. The danger here, though, is that there is a possibility that you are waiting for nothing. But if that happens, do not despair. That just means that what you were waiting for which you thought was the best was not really the right one for you. Drop it! Come to think of it, if this happens, the second best now becomes the ‘real’ best, right?

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