How To Not Get What You Want Now
And how to feel great while you wait
We do it for a green light, a pregnancy, a good idea or a promotion, for something bad to happen, someone to stop talking, or someone fabulous to text back: waiting. And, boy, do we hate it.
Waiting feels like time that belongs in the trash. It’s not good for anything else but holding up mirrors to see the fools who believe they have control over their lives. Instead of living our best self-determined life, we’re at the mercy of some event that’s still playing hard to get. And who knows when and even if it’ll happen or if we’ll still want it once it’s here. And will it turn out the way we want or as just some bunk outcome that wasn’t worth the wait?
In waiting, we feel like we’re being robbed of the possibilities of our present because time seems to be passing in relation to some point in the future. There’s no direction in this kind of now; it’s an in-between state with many unknowns and not much to hold on to. Nothing is happening, we’re just frittering life away. It can make us feel anything on the spectrum from uncomfortable to berserk.
Did you know that people would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit around for a few minutes with nothing to do?
