Hurry up and wait!

April 10, 2015

It has finally arrived:  Friday. The day we look forward to starting Sunday evening.

We live our lives waiting for those days off from working.  We work to get a paycheck so that by the end of those 2 days we are left with pennies to get us through the week!  What a cycle!

Most of us, I believe, spend a lot of our lives waiting for certain moments -and when those moments come, they are gone with a blink of an eye.  It's weird how we are always waiting for something.  We wait for the weekend, we wait for our paychecks, we wait to meet that one special person, we wait to get married, to have children (for those that actually want them - another blog, another time), and we wait for the ball to drop too.  (And it always does if we wait long enough).

But isn't that life? We take the good with the bad, don't we?  Do we have a choice either way?

I can only speak for myself when I say that I wait for everything. I sit and think, "I can't wait for XYZ to happen, or So-And-So to visit".  I do it on a daily basis. This waiting game.

Why, though, do I wait for things to happen all the time?  I feel like I miss out on so much NOW time.  In fact, I do miss out on that.

There are people that are so happy to live in the moment, ya know?  They take in every breath life gives them and they utilize it throughout their day, making the most out of every spec of dust blown in their faces.  They wipe that dust off, add some water, and make a pretty nice house with it.

Not I.  In fact, as I write this, I can't wait for 4 o'clock.  It's the hour of relief.  Relief from what? I don't know.

See this is the thing about MY style of waiting. I don't dislike what I'm doing in the meantime.  It's not like something is torture during my waiting period. I love my job. I love being with people in the present time. I love driving alone in my car bumpin' to Chanel West Coast or Nine Inch Nails or DeadMou5 or Gary Clark, Jr. or whatever my fancy is for the day.  I love being with friends, having a coffee and discussing my crazy obsession to help Rand Paul make it to the White House (true story). You see I almost feel like I live and wait and live and wait.  Maybe we're all like that, but I find myself obsessed with thinking of things to come.

Maybe I'm just one to be prepared for anything thrown my way.  Maybe I like to check things off my internal To Do List.  Maybe I'm waiting for that one day where I can lay my head beside someone and finally feel rest and peace.

Either way, today is now.  And too many of us (clearly you know I mean myself as well) live for tomorrow, but miss out on all the awesome stuff today brings.

For example, I have a pretty good cup of coffee sitting in front of me, I have my own office with the words "DIRECTOR" on the door.  I live a good life.  I don't need to wait for good things to come, because good things are already here.  I can't wait to see what else comes my way!