waiting

Webster defines "wait" as... 1a: to remain stationary in readiness or expectation; b: to pause for another to catch up 2a: to look forward expectantly; b: to hold back expectantly 3: to serve at meals 4a: to be ready and available; b: to remain temporarily neglected or unrealized

We all have to learn to wait in life. We wait in traffic, or we wait for something in the mail, or maybe we wait for a new movie to come out. We wait for test results, we wait for a baby's birth, we wait for a phone call. Waiting in some form or another is inevitable... but what are you going to do with your wait? How do you decide what or who is worth waiting for?

Sometimes we become impatient waiting. I think there's a reason for everything, but I wonder what I might have missed out on by giving up on the wait. This kid (ok he's probably not a kid) Napoleon Gonzales said, "We cannot remove this waiting from our lives. It is a part of the tapestry of living - the fabric in which the threads are woven to tell the story of our lives.Yet current philosophies would have us forget the need to wait - Instant pleasure, instant transcendence. Do not wait for anything. Life is short - eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow you will die." We are in a habit of seeking instant gratification. I'm all about not worrying about tomorrow, going with the flow, but at what point do we settle in for the wait?

Sometimes we have to decide if waiting means standing still and waiting expectantly for something or someone... sometimes we have to dig our feet in to endure a barrage of storms in our life. Other times we need to keep moving forward while we wait. I think I have to keep putting one foot in front of the other while I'm waiting. Maybe subconsciously I think if I'm moving, I'm going to lessen the wait or if I wrap myself in other things I can ignore the wait. Probably not... but I keep moving.

Perhaps you remember a few months ago I clued you in to my american idol fave Chris Sligh. He didn't go as far as I might have liked, but he had a band... Half Past Forever and one of my fave songs on their cd is "How Long"... check it out... just a snippet to tease you...

"All my life's been leading to this:
I've been dreaming
I know that life was meant for so much more
All the dreams and hopes to be
Are just dreams of something bigger
Maybe all this dreaming brings me closer to you"

here's to waiting...