what are you waiting for?

Life is full of waiting.  Take a moment to stop and think.  You wait:  at traffic lights, in grocery stores, at Starbucks, on the phone, in movie theatres, at restaurants, in amusement parks,  on Black Friday, for next week's episode, in the post office, at the doctor's office, maybe at your office, always at your shrink's office,  sometimes at the gym, and worst of all for the longest of all (after waiting to grow up),  you wait in airports.

Naturally, all this perpetual waiting you do everyday catalysts a sense of urgency from the masses.  For nobody really likes to wait, do they? "Do it faster!"  America screams.  "Okay!"  the people say. And a smorgasbord of "make it quick" inventions begins to accumulate:  Seven lanes of traffic, Speedy Check-Out 10 items or less, DRIVE-THRU, touch-tone phones, texting, buy it online, Hulu.com, McDonald's, send it Express, WebMD, the home gym, and online check-in with Delta.  Wait!  I'm talking so fast I'm exhausted.  Aren't you?  Unfortunately, even with high-speed, double-decker-dosage of 4G Internet, there you are still stuck in wait.  In a century when technology has infiltrated so many portions of human life and nearly everything can be available at the touch of a button, still you wait.  Perhaps it's only nanosecond, still it is waiting.

Whether you are waiting for your turn with the cashier at check-out, the next best seats behind home plate, the love of your life, or for your life to begin, you are waiting.  However, you only wait until you get what you waited for.  After that you can stop.  Or can you?  How long is it before you find yourself waiting for something else?  And after you get that thing what is the next thing you will wait for?

Void, are you a skilled waiter?  If you are not you may be surprised to find you will become an award-winning champion at the sport.  Much of life will be spent doing just that - waiting.  In the meantime, remember this: somewhere out there, a person, much like you, is doing the  Exact.  Same.  Thing.  And she is living up every minute of it.  That person, dear Void, is me.