Have you ever thought about the amount of energy you expend waiting? Does it feel as though you spend your entire life waiting on something or someone? The "waiting" is transferred from your parents to you....
Your parents can't wait until you're born --- they can't wait until you start talking. Then you start talking and they can't wait until you shut up. Then it evolves in them waiting for you to move out of the house and finish college so they can stop bailing you out financially. Throughout all of this, you yourself can't wait till you grow up, start driving, go off to college and eventually live your own life and be able to leave a pile of clothes wherever..as long as you want. Sound familiar? LOL!
I must clarify that my parents were PHENOMENAL! They never treated us (my sister and I) as I have just described above and I would have stayed at home forever if I didn't have this mean streak of independence running through every pore, vein, and piece of candy I've eaten since childhood.
You wait for your first job, wait to meet the man or woman of your dreams...wait for the debt to be paid off, wait to purchase your first home, wait to get off work, wait for the weekend, wait for waiting. Get the picture? I'm exhausted just writing about "waiting." :)
...but Life shouldn't be about waiting, should it? It should be about looking forward to every experience, encounter, disappointment, heartache, and triumph we live through, just waiting to cross our path.
I welcome and embrace the "waiting."
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