The Waiting Game

I don't want to hear Corrine Drewery singing "If you should ever change your mind. I'd be here just call my name.." Somebody just kill me please. I'd probably sing "I don't wanna wait in vain...for your love"...

Waiting is just not my thing. I do it, everybody does and is just an inevitable part of reality and circumstances. Yes we wait 2 hours for a job interview. Why? we babdly need it. We wait for our kids in school. Who else would wait? We wait for our turn to pay at the cashier, we have no choice. We wait and wait and wait.

I never understood why my friends say, "I'm so patient with things". I have the patience to wait. I'm not and I don't really have it. Sometimes I fell like I'm just sitting duck, waiting to be shot by a guiltless hunter. Sometimes it's a stupid thing called sacrifice but oftentimes, I'm put in that predicament where there isn't much choice left.

Many times I've been thru that state where I felt like boiling over and throwing the table out the window. My eyes turn fiery red and an infinite line of curses and obsceneties roll out my mouth for an hour or so. Then it dies down suddenly.

Then let's turn to the other side of the fence. Why do people make us wait? Where's the concern? Where's the consideration? It's simple arithmetic to say, waiting + miserable state = sorry existense... A slap reaction for, "you are taken for granted". No concern, no care, not-on-priority-list kind of thing. The cashier will make you wait while chatting with a sales clerk, who cares? Tolerate it or leave the items on the cart. You wait for your guy to come home, even with your endless nags on the phone, he never does. Like anything, it becomes a curse if you don't work to break it. I have some simple solutions though to break off the cycle.

1. Buy your own car or worse have the cab company number ready...
2. Curse and call the manager.
3. Leave and make time for yourself.
4. Spend a day lounging around and dozing off without any time constraints.